In this episode, Eric Zimmer talks with Thomas Sterner about his newest book, Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life, meditation being the vehicle for growing in self-awareness, learning to recognize the truth that “I am not my thoughts, I am the one who has thoughts”, that people who think they’ve had a “bad meditation” have actually had a very good meditation, the value of thinking of meditation like you do exercising, the innate sense in us that is misinterpreted, that the desire to expand is built into our DNA, the power of the question, ‘And then what?”, how we can control our emotions and doing so is a skill, the difference between a feeling and the truth, making decisions about how to handle a “road block” beforehand, that struggle is a sign that we are expanding and learning and up against our threshold and much more.