Bonus Holiday Re-Issue: Maria Popova

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Maria Popova: a writer, blogger, and critic living Brooklyn, NY. She is best known for Brainpickings.org, which features her writing on culture, books, and many other subjects. Brain Pickings is seen by millions of readers every month. Maria’s describes her work as a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are…. In This Interview Maria and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable. The critical importance of kindness. The 7 things she has learned from 7 years of Brain Pickings. Being so impatient that we don't dig deeper to understand peoples motivations. The difference between wisdom and knowledge. How we've become bored with thinking. How we have a biological aversion to being wrong. The uncomfortable luxury of changing our minds. How being open minded requires being open hearted. That as the stakes get higher we are less likely to be willing to change our mind. How most world religions exist to take away the feeling of not knowing. Presence is more important than productivity. How we can see spiritual growth as another thing to mark off on our checklist. Dispelling the illusion of the self. How we are creatures of contradictions. Trying to remove contradictions from our lives is a fools errand. Learning to love and live the questions. How it's silly to try and choose between the body and the soul, both are equally important. Why cat pictures on the internet will not relieve your existential emptiness. The average person spends two hours a day looking at their phone. That habit is how we weave our destiny. Whether we need to get something done every 4 minutes of our lives? Balancing presence and productivity. How it's easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time. There is no such thing as an overnight success.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Eric from the one you feed. Happy holidays to you. Whether you enjoy them or you hate them,
0:05.7	I hope you're making the best of them. As a holiday gift and as preparation for the new year, we are
0:12.3	re-releasing seven of the older episodes. If you're new to the show, all these episodes are over a year old,
0:20.3	so you may not have heard these yet if you've only been listening for a year. I pick the episodes because either A,
0:27.3	I think it's a really great episode, or B, I think it talks about behavior change, which we're heading into
0:33.6	the new year and that's on a lot of people's mind. Speaking of which, we are going to try something this new year.
0:39.9	We are going to try the first one you feed group transformation program. It'll be $100 for a month. We're going to limit it to 10 people.
0:50.3	We will meet online four times that month. We'll discuss tips and tricks and different ways to ensure that you stay on track
0:57.7	behavior wise. You'll be able to ask questions of me and we'll do some things where you're paired up as a group
1:03.7	so that you can get some support outside of the calls as well to make sure you get the new year off to a great start.
1:09.5	So if you're interested, just send an email to me, Eric at oneufeed.net. I hope you enjoy these episodes. I'd listen to back to a
1:17.5	couple of them and let's just leave it at we are getting better at what we do. In the very first one, I sound
1:25.5	very nervous and I was. So anyway, it's still a great interview. Enjoy these. Have a happy new year. Thank you for listening and we will talk to you soon. Bye.
1:38.0	In order to be able to have peace at all with ourselves and with other people, we need to be able to acknowledge that there is
1:44.9	contradiction in everything and that is the beauty of life and trying to resolve that contradiction is a full
1:50.4	sharing that's only ever going to make us feel disappointed because one part is not going to seize existing because we try to
1:56.3	will it to do so.
2:05.7	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
2:12.3	quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
2:22.1	We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
2:29.7	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
2:36.7	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
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