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

Jonathan Fields

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Join our new The One You Feed Facebook Discussion Group   This week we talk to Jonathan Fields about living a good life Jonathan Fields is a New York City dad, husband, and he currently runs a mission-driven media and education venture, Good Life Project, where he and his team lead a global community in the quest to live more meaningful, connected and vital lives. He produces a top-rated podcast and video-series with millions of listens and views, where he hosts in-depth conversations with leading voices from Sir Ken Robinson to Brene Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert and hundreds more. Jonathan has also been featured widely in the media, including everything from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and FastCompany to Real Simple, O Magazine, Self, People, Vogue, Elle, Allure, and many others. His latest book is called How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom  In This Interview, Jonathan Fields and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His new book, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful stories, surprising science and practical wisdom The three good life buckets: Connection, Vitality, Contribution Improving your experience in your "day job" The mistake in his business manifesto: Thou shalt do epic shit The role that money plays in living a good life That the way that you spend your money plays a big role in a satisfying life What gives you a sense of purpose? What in your life do you do passionately? Sparks The middle way Three ways to deal with the energy vampires in your life: self-care, compassion & find your beacon That your life can only be as good as the level of your lowest bucket How to improve your life by assessing the levels of your buckets and what actions to then take Jonathan Fields Links Homepage Twitter Facebook Join our new The One You Feed Facebook Discussion GroupSee 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 ask somebody, what is your passion?

0:02.0

A lot of people will look at you like a deer in headlights.

0:12.3

Welcome to the one you feed.

0:14.6

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

0:19.1

Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

0:23.5

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

0:29.6

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

0:36.9

things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:40.0

But it's not just about thinking.

0:42.0

Our actions matter.

0:43.5

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

0:48.3

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

1:07.4

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Jonathan Fields. Jonathan describes himself as a father, a husband, a maker, and a man who cares deeply about, loves, and admires those closest to him, and is humbled and grateful for the opportunity to create and connect and serve. As if that's not enough, he is also a serial entrepreneur, growth strategist,

1:29.9

and an award-winning author. Another impressive accolade he could throw onto his resume is that he is a

1:35.8

previous guest of this show, the one you feed. His new book is How to Live a Good Life, Soulful

1:42.5

Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom. Here's the interview. Hi, Jonathan. Welcome to the show. Hey, it's so great to be hanging out with you. Yeah, I'm always happy to talk to you. I think this will be the third time we've talked on air once on your show, once on our show. This being the third, and we're getting to do this after you have released an extraordinarily good book that I'm really excited to talk about. Ah, thanks so much. Yeah, I'm looking forward to jamming on it as well. So, as you know, our podcast is based on the parable, the two wolves, and you got the chance to answer this once, but you're going to get the chance to answer it again. So in the parable, there's a

2:18.1

grandfather who's talking with his grandson, and he says, in life, there are two wolves inside of us

2:23.5

that are always at battle. One is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and

2:29.2

love, and the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

2:35.2

The grandson stops.

2:36.3

He thinks about it for a second.

2:37.6

He looks up at his grandfather and he says, well, grandfather, which one wins?

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