How to Calm Your Mind and Be Productive with Chris Bailey
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this Episode, you'll learn:
- How we often feed the wrong wolf without even realizing it
- What some of the hidden sources of stress are in modern day society
- How many stressors have become so familiar, we don't even recognize the stress they cause
- How we can learn to bring more calm into our lives by practicing being present
- Why calming our minds leads to more productivity and less anxiety
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| 0:00.0 | There is a lot of hidden stress that we choose to pay attention to simply because of the fact that stress becomes familiar. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:17.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:21.0 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:27.0 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:31.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:36.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:39.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:42.0 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:44.0 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:46.0 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:50.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:55.0 | how they feed their good walls. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi, I'm Adam Grant, and you may know me from the podcast Work Life. |
| 1:15.0 | I've started a new show with a TED audio collective called Rethinking, |
| 1:18.0 | where I talk to some of today's greatest minds about how they see the world. |
| 1:22.0 | Here from scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs, on the assumptions they challenge, |
| 1:27.0 | and the mindsets that fuel their success. |
| 1:29.0 | Guests include Brunei Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Cuban, and Morphe. |
| 1:34.0 | Listen to Rethinking on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:41.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:42.0 | Our guest on this episode is Chris Bailey, author and host of the Time and Attention Podcast, |
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