Jesse Browner

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

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🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Jesse Browner Jesse Browner is the author of the novels The Uncertain Hour and Everything Happens Today. His latest book is the memoir How Did I Get Here: Making Peace with the Road Not Taken. Browner has also translated books by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard and Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as Frédéric Vitoux's award-winning Céline: A Biography. More recently, he translated Matthieu Ricard's Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill and Frédéric Mitterrand's The Bad Life. His freelance writing includes contributions to Nest magazine, Food & Wine, Gastronomica, New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Salon.com, Slate.com and others. . In This Interview, Jesse Browner and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His new book, How Did I Get Here? Making Peace with the Road Not Taken That in our "unlived lives" we are always happier and more fulfilled Making peace with the choices we've made in our lives How to approach the question, "what if" by asking instead, "what is" That the most persistent monkey on an artists back is happiness The belief that happiness whitewashes all the things that makes us unique Bet on the likelihood that you're not a genius and that you can make meaning in your life in other ways than your art Why bet against yourself? To work hard at something you love: you'll be the best you can His life's motto: Work and Love How he's been called "the angry Buddhist" by his children The importance of and remedy in being more deeply involved in the life you have Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're going to be put off by the easy things like not having enough time,
0:04.4	then you really have to question your vocation.
0:14.8	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:16.8	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:21.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:25.8	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.2	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have,
0:37.3	instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:42.4	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent,
0:47.5	and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep
0:52.8	themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:09.0	Hey everybody, are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:13.2	I'm Roy Scovol, and I'm Daniel van Kirk, and it's the Pen Pals podcast. Maybe you've had a pen
1:17.5	pal before, or you have two of them right now. You send us your letters about anything going on in
1:22.4	your life. Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is, send it to us, and we have guests
1:27.1	like Will Ferrell, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne, Brett Goldstein, and Mandy Moore. Listen to the
1:31.6	Pen Pals podcast on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcast,
1:36.8	or wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Jesse Browner,
1:44.1	author, translator, and freelance writer. Jesse's writing includes many books as well as contributions to
1:50.5	Nest Magazine, New York Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, salon.com, slate.com, and others.
1:58.0	His latest book is his memoir called How Did I Get Here, Making Peace With the Road Not Taken.
2:04.4	If you value the content we put out each week, then we need your help. As the show has grown,
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