How to Incite Joy with Ross Gay

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In This Episode, You'll Learn

How his “delight” project was about learning to pay attention
Discovering that joy and delight are abundant if you are looking and paying attention
Defining joy and all that accompanies this profound emotion
How talking about joy and gratitude helps with the difficulties in life
The importance of laughter and how it connects us to joy
Why we need to slow down and listen to our bodies
How busyness is a way of avoiding or escaping
How writing can be a tool for self discovery and gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves

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0:00.0	joy is that thing that we enter when we practice our entanglement. When we actually submit to and
0:06.2	practice being entangled with one another, which we are, and we can fight it, and when we fight it,
0:12.9	that seems to lead to misery. But when we practice it, maybe that is joy.
0:18.6	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:27.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:32.7	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us,
0:39.7	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity,
0:45.4	jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold
0:51.2	us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes
0:57.6	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
1:03.3	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:16.2	I'm Jay Shetty, and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most
1:26.7	incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart,
1:31.7	Lewis Hamilton, and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real-life stories
1:37.2	behind their journeys and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a
1:41.2	difference in their lives so that they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with
1:46.0	Jay Shetty on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the journey soon.
1:52.4	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Ross Gay, the author of many poetry and essay
1:58.0	books, and a teacher at Indiana University. He's a founding co-editor of the online sports magazine,
2:04.3	Some Call it Ballon, in addition to being an editor with Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press. Ross is a
2:10.4	founding board member of the Bloomington community orchard, a nonprofit free fruit for all justice
2:16.4	and joy project. He's received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Breadlobe Writer's conference,
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