Johann Hari

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Johann Hari about battling our demons
Johann Hari is a British journalist. He has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the Nation, Slate, El Mundo, and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was a lead op-ed columnist for the Independent, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, for nine years.
Johann was named ‘National Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ by Amnesty International twice. He was named ‘Environmental Commentator of the Year’ at the Editorial Intelligence awards, and ‘Gay Journalist of the Year’ at the Stonewall awards. He has also won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for political writing.
His latest book is called Chasing the Scream, The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

In This Interview Johann and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
The origins of the war on drugs.
Is the war on drugs productive.
How every culture in the world has looked for ways to become intoxicated?
The % of people who use drugs who ever have a problem with it.

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0:00.0	It's useful to try to extend your compassion to people who've done terrible things,
0:03.2	but also it's useful to identify the similarities we all have with
0:07.0	sadistic and cruel people, as well as admirable people.
0:17.9	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:19.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:24.4	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.
0:28.8	Ring true, and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:34.3	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:39.0	We see what we don't have, instead of what we do.
0:41.9	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:45.4	But it's not just about thinking.
0:47.3	Our actions matter.
0:48.8	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:53.6	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:58.0	how they feed their good walls.
1:13.2	In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife,
1:16.8	and the club's DJ would go on to make history.
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