Greg Marcus

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

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🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Greg Marcus about the spiritual practice of Mussar Greg Marcus has a BA in Biology from Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. in biology from MIT. He worked for ten years as a marketer in the Silicon Valley genomics industry, after which he became a stay-at-home dad, writer, life balance coach, and biotech consultant. Greg’s first book, Busting Your Corporate Idol: Self-Help for the Chronically Overworked, is a five star Amazon best seller. His latest book is called The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar In This Interview, Greg Marcus and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His book, The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar Mussar: A Thousand Year Old Hebrew Spiritual Practice Soul Traits That you can be too truthful and it can be counter productive That being untruthful to spare yourself embarrassment is not ok That being untruthful to spare someone else's feelings can be ok And the intention is the most important determiner of whether or not to tell the truth Choice points The evil inclination and the good inclination Mussar helps us by opening the space between "the match and the fuse" That we all have free will but it's not always accessible to us What qualifies as an act of kindness Mussar = "Extreme Spiritual Fitness" Morning Mantra, Daily observations and practices, Evening journaling Mussar helps you specialize and deepen your knowledge and practice of the Soul Traits The four assumptions of Mussar: We all have a divine spark that is occluded by our baggage We all have the same Soul Traits but we have different amounts of each We have a conflict between the good inclination and the evil inclination We all have free will and it's not always accessible to us That patience is the cure for helplessness Mussar: repairing the Soul Traits within us and how it can help the world Please Support The Show with a DonationSee 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	Just because it's true doesn't mean you need to say it.
0:10.4	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:12.4	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:17.0	quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.
0:22.6	And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:26.8	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
0:31.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:34.4	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:38.0	But it's not just about thinking.
0:39.9	Our actions matter.
0:41.4	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:46.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:50.6	How they feed their good wolf.
0:57.0	Hey, everybody. Are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:08.8	I'm Roy Scovol.
1:09.6	And I'm Daniel van Kirk and it's the Penn Pals podcast.
1:12.1	Maybe you've had a pen pal before.
1:13.6	Well, you have two of them right now.
1:15.4	You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
1:18.4	Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is.
1:21.0	Send it to us and we have guests like Wolf Farrell, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne,
1:24.8	Brett Goldstein and Mandy Moore.
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