Akshay Nanavati

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Akshay Nanavati about learning to use our fear
Akshay Nanavati is an explorer, volunteer firefighter, former U.S. Marine, and masters graduate in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He has been mountaineering all over the world, glacier caving in Nepal, skydiving, ice diving, cave diving, scuba diving, and spent one month dragging a 190 pound sled 350 miles across the second largest icecap in the world.
His current project is to run across every country in the world. His website is called Existing to Living and uses the principles of human psychology, neuroscience and a greater understanding of how we function as human beings, to help you master your mind, body, heart, spirit and business.
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In This Interview Akshay and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
The difference between the human brain and the animal brain.
His goal of running across every country in the world.
Breaking things down into smaller steps and taking them one at a time.
Learning to control how we respond to our environments.
His forthcoming book: The Other Side of Fear.
How fear and nirvana work together.

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0:00.0	You want to use willpower, which is consciousness, to then reshape habits.
0:03.6	Because willpower is an exhaustible muscle.
0:13.3	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:15.3	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:19.9	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.
0:24.3	Ring true.
0:25.5	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:29.8	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:34.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:37.4	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:40.9	But it's not just about thinking.
0:42.9	Our actions matter.
0:44.4	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:49.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:53.6	How they feed their good wolf.
0:59.8	In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife.
1:12.1	And the club's DJ would go on to make history.
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