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The One You Feed

Bob Proctor

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week we talk to Bob Proctor about thought and action

Bob Proctor is an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant, entrepreneur, and teacher of positive thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential. In that endeavor, he follows in the footsteps of such motivational giants as Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale and Wallace D. Wattles.
He is the author on numerous book including the international best-seller You Were Born Rich, his latest book is called The ABC's of Success.
He was prominently featured in the book and movie, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

In This Interview Bob and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
The paradigm that feeds the bad wolf.
His feeling on the movie The Secret.
The Law of Vibration is the primary law over the Law of Attraction.
That positive thinking alone does not deliver.
The belief that we get what we think about it is a myth.
How a little bit of knowledge is dangerous.
How whatever we impress on our mind, we express outwardly.
That we must have discipline as our most basic attribute.
Being able to give ourselves a command and then following it.
That the real problem is that we do not understand ourselves.
Changing the core paradigm.
His view on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
How we never learn about who we are in the formal education system.
Whether there is more to a spiritual life than desire and wanting.
That humans are creative beings.
The two good reasons to want money.
The devil's best tool.
The damaging power of discouragement.
Rising Above our circumstances.
How we either react to life or respond.
The space between stimulus and response.
That when we re-act, the other person is in charge.
Dealing with our emotions in a conscious fashion.
The value of reading biographies of famous people.
The room of windows versus the room of mirrors.
Avoiding the obligation mindset.
Dissatisfaction as a creative state.
That grandma was wrong.
The power of persistence.




Bob Proctor Links

Bob Proctor Homepage
Bob Proctor Facebook
Bob Proctor Twitter



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0:00.0

Everybody's got opinions and most of them are a little weird.

0:12.8

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:14.8

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

0:19.3

Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

0:24.9

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:29.2

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

0:33.9

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:36.8

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:40.2

But it's not just about thinking.

0:42.2

Our actions matter.

0:43.6

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:48.5

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.

0:52.9

How they feed their good wolf.

0:59.4

In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife.

1:10.9

And the club's DJ would go on to make history.

1:14.1

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1:17.4

Learn more about the rise of house music on the history of the world's greatest night clubs.

1:22.7

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1:29.2

Listen to the history of the world's greatest night clubs on the I Heart Radio app,

1:33.1

Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:37.4

Thanks for joining us.

1:38.6

Our guest today is Bob Proctor, an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant,

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