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

Eric Kaufmann

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Please Support The Show by Donation   This week we talk to Eric Kaufmann about leadership Eric Kaufmann guides leaders to make better decisions and achieve better results. He has consulted for hundreds of leaders, including executives and teams at Sony, T-Mobile, Genentech, Alcon Labs, and Teradata. He is the founder and president of Sagatica, Inc. and serves on the board of the San Diego Zen Center. His new book is called the Four Virtues of a Leader and shares practical ideas and tools that deepen a leader’s ability to be efficient, effective and deliberate.    In This Interview, Eric Kaufmann and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His new book, The Four Virtues of a Leader How leadership is like The Hero's Journey How he used the spiritual bypass His definition of leadership Leadership in day to day life His four questions surrounding leadership The three hurdles we have to overcome to be effective His definition of courage Ways you can build courage The important difference between fear and anxiety The lifelong process of discipline The three gems of Buddhism Procrastination How spiritual surrender plays into leadership Please Support The Show by Donation   It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.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

Courage is walking toward what you'd rather run away from.

0:12.9

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:15.0

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

0:19.6

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

0:25.2

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

0:29.5

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

0:34.1

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

0:37.0

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

0:40.5

But it's not just about thinking.

0:42.5

Our actions matter.

0:44.0

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

0:48.8

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

0:53.2

How they feed their good wolf.

0:59.6

Hey, everybody. Are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?

1:11.2

I'm Roy Scovol.

1:12.0

And I'm Daniel van Kirk.

1:13.0

And it's the Pen Pals podcast.

1:14.6

Maybe you've had a pen pal before.

1:16.0

Well, you have two of them right now.

1:17.9

You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.

1:20.8

Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is, send it to us.

1:24.5

And we have guests like Wolf Feral, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne,

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