January 2009
Beginner
256 pages
3h 52m
English
In the seminal film All That Jazz, the main character starts his day each morning by staring intensely at his image in the mirror before urging, ‘It’s show time!’ He is intensely aware that from the moment he leaves the quiet of his home he is permanently ‘on stage’. While you may not need to remind yourself daily that it’s show time, you do need to evolve your own way of switching on your alertness for those moments where being fully present really matters.
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