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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you really believe in the sacredness of a given moment, you wouldn't want to waste it chasing |
0:04.7 | phantoms. And a lot of our thoughts, a lot of our worries, I think our phantoms actually, |
0:08.4 | but they feel very real. |
0:17.4 | Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of |
0:22.5 | the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
0:28.4 | ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward |
0:34.7 | negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, |
0:41.5 | we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, |
0:46.9 | our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
0:53.2 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
0:57.6 | how they feed their good walls. |
1:13.4 | I'm Jay Shetty, and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most |
1:18.0 | incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart, |
1:23.2 | Lewis Hamilton, and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real-life stories |
1:28.4 | behind their journeys and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a |
1:32.4 | difference in their lives so that they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with |
1:37.2 | Jay Shetty on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the |
1:42.2 | journey soon. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is George Saunders, an American |
1:49.1 | writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. He's a professor at Syracuse |
1:55.4 | University at a four-time winner of the National Magazine Award, as well as winner of the World |
2:01.0 | Fantasy Award, Story Prize, Folio Prize, Booker Prize, and others. Today, George and Eric |
2:07.1 | cover are many topics, including his new book, Liberation Day Stories. |
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