How to Discover New Ways of Living with Shauna Niequist
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Shauna Niequist is the New York Times Best Selling author of many books such as Present Over Perfect, Bread and Wine, Cold Tangerines, and others. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
In this episode, Eric and Shauna discuss her book, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ones Stop Working.
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Shauna Niequist and I Discuss How to Discover New Ways of Living and …
- Her book, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ones Stop Working
- Why the word hospitality is important to her
- What self-compassion means to her and how she practices it
- Seeing out beauty as an act of prayer, worship, and resistance
- Putting herself in the path of joy and beauty, giving herself the greatest chance to find them
- How to practice being easily delighted
- It’s ok for the joy of something to be that it feels like play
- Seeing people different from you is a reminder that you can change and find a new way of being
- How radical and freeing it is to consent to the reality of the way things are
- The value of adding to our toolkit of ways we can help ourselves when we are struggling
- What it means for her that sometimes saying no is in service to a much better yes
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| 0:00.0 | If you can train yourself to walk through life, being kind of on the lookout for tiny little moments of delight, |
| 0:06.8 | you start seeing them everywhere you go. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:19.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:23.6 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, |
| 0:29.2 | and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:33.4 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:38.1 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:44.4 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:47.9 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:52.8 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:57.2 | how they feed their good walls. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm Dana Schwartz, host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast |
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| 1:22.9 | It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure. |
| 1:27.0 | At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics. |
| 1:34.8 | But who? |
| 1:36.0 | Listen to Stealing Superman on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite shows. |
| 1:43.2 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:44.4 | Our guest on this episode is Shana Niquest, the New York Times best-selling author of many books, |
| 1:49.6 | such as Present Over Perfect, Bread and Wine, Colt and Jareens, and others. |
| 1:54.6 | Today, Shana and Eric discuss her book, I guess I haven't learned that yet. |
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