Alex LIckerman

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Alex Lickerman is a physician, former assistant professor of medicine and director of primary care, and current assistant vice president for Student Health and Counseling Services at the University of Chicago. He’s also been a secular Buddhist since 1989. His first book is The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self.

In This Interview Alex and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
Neither wolf wins permanently, the battle always goes on.
How things that don't kill us can make us stronger but it doesn't happen automatically.
Building an indestructible self.
How our inner life state has much more to do with how we cope with adversity than the nature of that adversity.
Suffering doesn't automatically cause us to grow.
Learning to accept unpleasant feelings.
How our strategies to avoid pain usually make it worse.
Non judgmental awareness of our feelings is often better than resistance.
The secret to success is not avoiding pain but carrying on in spite of it.
That our internal pep talks have to be believable.
The difference between optimistic and pessimistic explanatory styles.
How obstacles always arrive on our path.
That the last thing we do is look internally to see what we need to change in order to achieve a goal.
Sometimes the way to solve a problem is not to fix it but to change how much we allow it to suffer.
How suffering ceases to be suffering when it acquires meaning.
Using comparison to be a positive force versus a destructive force.
The difference between determination and willpower.

Alex Lickerman Links
Happiness In This World- Alex Lickerman run site
Alex Lickerman homepage
Alex Lickerman on Twitter
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0:00.0	the best kind of encouragement you can get. This is someone just like you succeeds and you think
0:04.5	yourself if they can do it, I can do it.
0:14.5	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:19.7	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:25.6	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward
0:31.8	negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think
0:39.1	things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
0:45.6	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is
0:51.4	about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:06.3	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran. On my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran, I'll be bringing you
1:11.9	candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life. We'll touch on
1:16.7	subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever
1:21.4	else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:26.2	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud
1:31.6	on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:38.4	Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is Alex Likerman. Alex is a physician, speaker,
1:43.7	and assistant vice president for student health and counseling at the University of Chicago.
1:49.6	Alex's book is called The Undefeated Mind on the Science of Constructing and Indestructible Self.
1:55.6	Here's the interview. Hi, Alex. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.
1:59.4	Yeah, I'm happy that we were able to get you on. I found your book The Undefeated Mind.
2:04.8	Really interesting for a lot of different reasons, but I think one of the things that runs through it
2:09.7	that will explore a lot more is really the idea of transforming what we would talk about as
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