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

Chris Brogan

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on The One You Feed we have Chris Brogan.Chris Brogan is a best selling author, the publisher of the new online business magazine Owner, and the president of Human Business Works. He leads online classes on improving your business and yourself. He has a popular podcast and is one of the good guys in online marketing.Chris puts out a weekly newsletter that you can sign up for here. It is one of those rare emails that I read each week.We had a chance to go beyond (actually skipped entirely) online marketing and instead focused on being a better human. In This Interview Chris and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.The bad wolf's smelly poop.The power of confidence.Building confidence by taking small risks.How limiting chasing comfort can be.Feedback and reward systems.The value of accountability.How mind reading others lands us in trouble.Permission.Starting where you are.How Seth Godin got Chris to read Pema Chodron.Chris' conversion to Buddhism.Dealing with setbacks.Than danger of the all or nothing mentality.Chris Brogan LinksOwner MagazineChris Brogan HomepageHuman Business WorksPre-Order Chris' latest book: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World DominatorsTwitter- @chrisbroganSee 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

Nothing good in life comes without discomfort.

0:02.6

We humans load discomfort.

0:05.2

We want to be comfortable all the time.

0:15.1

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:17.1

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

0:21.6

quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

0:26.0

ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:31.5

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

0:36.2

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

0:39.1

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

0:42.5

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.

0:46.0

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

0:50.8

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

0:55.2

how they feed their good wolf.

1:08.8

Hi, it's Elvis Jaran.

1:10.0

On my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran, I'll be bringing you candid and maybe

1:15.1

sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

1:18.6

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love,

1:22.9

success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.

1:24.8

But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,

1:28.8

I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

1:31.2

Now listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app,

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