Finding Beauty in Limitations: The Art of Living Fully with Esme Wang
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Esme Wang discusses ways of finding beauty in limitations and the art of living fully. She explains how life often presents us with unexpected challenges that shape our journey in profound ways. Esme shares her personal experiences with chronic illness, including schizoaffective disorder and complex PTSD, and how these conditions have influenced her perspective on life and work. She delves into how to find the intricate balance between ambition and living with limitations and explores strategies for navigating life through difficult periods.
Key Takeaways:
- Adapting to life’s limitations and finding creative workarounds
- The value of detailed record-keeping for managing mental health
- Redefining productivity and usefulness in the face of chronic illness
- Balancing ambitious goals with appreciation for the present moment
- The role of literature in experiencing multiple lives within our one existence
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| 0:00.0 | One of the really beautiful things about literature is that we get to experience so many other lives, |
| 0:07.2 | even if we can only live one life ourselves. to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the |
| 0:24.9 | thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:32.0 | And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:36.2 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:41.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:47.0 | But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. |
| 0:50.0 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:55.6 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how |
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