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

Jessica Hagy

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on The One You Feed we have Jessica Hagy. She is an artist and writer best known for her award-winning blog, Indexed. A fixture in the creative online space, Jessica has been illustrating, consulting, and speaking since 2006.In This Interview Jessica and I discuss...The One You Feed parable.What is the Happiness Principle.Does the bad wolf look like Brad Pitt or does he look like he has scurvy?What the secret language of graphs and charts looks like.The value of small explorations.Where we can get Leonard Cohen's email address.What is the biggest business virtue you can have in today's world.Why being authentic makes you more interesting.How many good stories are there to every "Chris Hanson have a cookie" stories.How even the very succesful face imposters syndrome.Special Cards from Jessica for The One You FeedDetailed BioJessica Hagy is an artist and writer best known for her Webby award-winning blog, Indexed (www.thisisindexed.com). A fixture in the creative online space, Jessica has been prolifically illustrating, consulting, and speaking to international media and events since 2006.Her work has been described as “deceptively simple,” “undeniably brilliant,” and “our favorite reason for the Internet to exist.” Her style of visual storytelling allows readers to draw their own conclusions and to actively participate in each narrative. “Her images don’t always tell us what to think; quite often, they elegantly offer us ideas to think about.”She mixes data (both quantitative and qualitative) with humor, insight, and simple visuals to make even the most complex concepts immediately accessible and relevant. Her commissioned work frequently appears in various web formats, galleries, books, magazines, newspapers, television outlets, and advertising campaigns.Jessica Hagy LinksHow to be InterestingJessica Hagy homepageIndexedJessica Hagy page at ForbesSee 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

Everybody has a tribe out there and all you need are two or three or four people and you're unstoppable.

0:15.0

Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance

0:20.0

of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

0:26.0

ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward

0:32.2

negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:39.1

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,

0:44.5

our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:50.8

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

0:55.2

how they feed their good wolf.

1:09.3

Hi, it's Elvis Durand on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Durand. I'll be bringing you

1:14.8

candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

1:19.1

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success,

1:23.7

failure, whatever else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this business

1:28.0

for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. Now listen to my new

1:32.5

podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:40.9

Our guest today is Jessica Hagi, an artist and writer best known for her award-winning blog,

1:46.4

Indexed. A feature in the creative online space, Jessica has been illustrating,

1:51.1

consulting and speaking since 2006. Her latest book is called How to Be Interesting.

1:57.2

And she recently produced a series of illustrations for Forbes magazine based on the classic

2:02.3

Art of War. Hi, Eric and Chris. Hi, thanks for doing this. Sure, sure, thanks for having me.

2:09.1

Okay, let's go ahead and get started. So our podcast is based on the old parable where there's a

2:14.4

grandfather who is talking with his grandson and he says to him, in life, there are two wolves inside

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