How Small Changes Lead to Big Rewards with Michael Easter
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael Easter defines the scarcity loop and its impact on human behavior, particularly in relation to addictive tendencies. Michael shares several compelling insights on how small changes can lead to big rewards.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Embrace the 2% mentality to unlock powerful daily habits and achieve long-term goals
- Discover the surprising benefits of choosing discomfort for sustainable personal growth and success
- Learn effective strategies for breaking free from the scarcity loop and cultivating abundance in life
- Uncover the remarkable impact of making small lifestyle changes on overall health and well-being
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| 0:00.0 | you give a caveman a sleeve of Oreos, they're going to eat the whole thing and that makes sense because they're never going to see that again, right? |
| 0:05.2 | But today we're just surrounded in food and we still have a brain that goes like, hey, if you have a chance to overeat or eat food that is more calorie dense like junk food, like do that and you see |
| 0:15.7 | this kind of manifest itself in people's waistlines today, you know, people are obviously on average |
| 0:20.9 | a lot heavier than they were in the past. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:30.0 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the |
| 0:35.0 | importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are |
| 0:40.4 | what you think, ring true. |
| 0:42.6 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:46.8 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:51.6 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back |
| 0:56.2 | and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
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