How to Embrace the Important Elements of Life with Nickolas Butler
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Nickolas Butler is the author of many novels, including the internationally best-selling and prize-winning Shotgun Lovesongs, which has been optioned for film development and has been translated into ten languages. Nickolas is the recipient of many literary prizes and commendations and has published articles, reviews, short stories, and poetry in publications such as: Ploughshares, Narrative, and The New York Times Book Review, to name a few.
Eric and Nickolas discuss a few of his novels as well as how we can learn to embrace the important elements of life.
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Nickolas Butler and I Discuss How to Embrace the Important Elements of Life and…
- His novels, Godspeed and Shotgun Lovesongs
- The fear and doubt he faces in his creative life
- Comparing our lives to others
- How we take for granted the basic things that previous generations worked hard for
- His relationship with his father and grandfather
- The differences in generations and what he hopes to teach his kids
- Trying to find empathy and understanding with those you don’t agree with
- The complexities of parent-child relationships
- Why he writes essays for his local newspaper
- His idea of choosing a tree and practicing gratitude for that tree
- How friendships are special and unique human relationships
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| 0:00.0 | The more things that I've found in my life that you do for your craft or you do for your community or your neighbors, |
| 0:07.2 | man the reward is huge on that stuff. It's just huge. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:20.5 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:25.1 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us |
| 0:32.1 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, |
| 0:38.5 | or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and |
| 0:44.4 | dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, |
| 0:50.5 | consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people |
| 0:56.3 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:45.1 | Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Thanks for joining |
| 1:50.7 | us. Our guest on this episode is Nicholas Butler, an American novelist, short story author and |
| 1:56.4 | poet. He's the award-winning author of four novels, including Shotgun Love Songs and God's |
| 2:01.8 | Feed, along with many short story collections and poetry collections. |
| 2:06.6 | Hi Nick, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm a big fan. |
| 2:10.4 | Oh, thank you. Well, I'm a fan of your work also. Matthew Quick introduced us who's been a |
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