Dan Wilson
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Dan Wilson
This is another interview that has great personal significance to us. Dan was part of Trip Shakespeare which is one of Eric's all-time favorite bands. He also went on to form Semisonic another band that we loved.
Dan Wilson is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and visual artist. He is known as the leader of the band Semisonic, for which he wrote the Grammy-nominated "Closing Time" and the international hit "Secret Smile." Wilson has also released several solo recordings, including the 2014 release Love Without Fear. He was also a member of the Minneapolis psychedelic rock band Trip Shakespeare.
Wilson is also an acclaimed and highly successful co-writer and producer, who has collaborated with a diverse array of artists including: Adele, Pink,Keith Urban, Weezer, Dierks Bentley, John Legend, Taylor Swift, Nas, Spoon, Alex Clare, Birdy, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
His collaborations have earned him two Grammy Awards. His first was the 2007 Song of the Year Grammy for "Not Ready to Make Nice," one of the six songs he co-wrote with the Dixie Chicks for their Album of the Year winning Taking the Long Way. Wilson also shared in the 2012 Grammy for Album of the year for his work as a producer of the hit "Someone Like You," one of the three songs he co-wrote with Adele for her album 21.
In This Interview Dan and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
Neither wolf wins permanently, the battle always goes on.
How what we focus on grows.
How a good plan and acting is better than waiting on a great plan.
Nurturing our gifts to the world.
How malleable our lives and character really are.
The meaning between Love Without Fear.
What stands out to him from the Trip Shakespeare time.
How Trip Shakespeare wrote songs.
The Trip Shakespeare re-release project.
The art of reinterpretation.
Dealing with comparison and envy.
Life changing advice from Frank Stella
Dan Wilson Links
Dan Wilson Homepage
Dan Wilson 6 Second Songwriting
Dan Wilson Tumblr
Dan Wilson Twitter
Dan Wilson Facebook
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| 0:00.0 | You can feed that part of you that wants to be mad at the success of mediocrity, and |
| 0:07.1 | then you'll become a bitter sad person. |
| 0:09.8 | Or you can cultivate a habit of loving great work. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:24.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:28.6 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many |
| 0:35.0 | of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:38.3 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:43.0 | We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and |
| 0:47.6 | dampen our spirit. |
| 0:49.4 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:52.8 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.7 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 1:02.1 | how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:04.7 | Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. |
| 1:18.1 | I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from |
| 1:21.9 | all walks of life. |
| 1:22.9 | We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, |
| 1:27.4 | success, failure, whatever else comes to mind. |
| 1:29.4 | But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have, I want |
| 1:33.5 | to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. |
| 1:35.6 | And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, |
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