Jonathan Fields

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Jonathan Fields 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, to connect and to serve.He is the creator of The Good Life Project which is an audio and video podcast that was one of the inspirations for our show. He is also the author of Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance and Career Renegade.He is also the creator of the upcoming Good Life Project Summer Camp which I will be attending. In This Interview Jonathan and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.Zooming out to get the meta view.How a good life isn't a place at which you arrive but a lens that you see through.The danger of "just a little bit more".Contentment versus striving.Appreciating what we have while taking action to achieve more.The difference between aspire and desire. Destroying possibility by clinging to certainty. Spending more time thinking about today than our legacy."The path to becoming is littered with the remains of those who missed the grace of being".Missing the present by being too focused on the future.Missing the little moments while hoping for the bigger moments.How we are not good at understanding what will make us happy.The importance of being around people you love.What a Good Life means to Jonathan-contribution, connection, vitality.Comparing our insides with other peoples outsides.The difference between meaning and happiness.Creating more meaning in our lives.How most of us don't know what we want to do with our lives and figure it out along the way.The paralyzing nature of heavy questions.How the person we are looking for is the person we are.Chipping away all the gunk that covers up who we are.Feeling like we have to have all the answers.Jonathan Fields LinksThe Good Life Project HomepageJonathan Fields HomepageJonathan Fields Ted TalkUncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for BrillianceCareer RenegadeThe Good Life Project Creed Some of our most popular interviews that you might also enjoy:Kino MacGregorStrand of OaksMike Scott of the WaterboysTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee 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? A lot of people will look at you like a deer in headlights.
0:12.4	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:14.4	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:19.0	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:24.6	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:28.8	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:33.6	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:36.4	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:39.9	But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
0:43.3	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:48.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:52.6	How they feed their good wolf.
0:59.0	Hey, everybody. Are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:10.7	I'm Roy Scovol. And I'm Daniel van Kirk.
1:12.5	And it's the Pen Pals podcast. Maybe you've had a pen pal before.
1:15.6	Well, you have two of them right now. You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
1:20.4	Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is, send it to us.
1:24.0	And we have guests like Lil Ferrell, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne, Brett Goldstein,
1:27.7	and Mandy Moore. Listen to the Pen Pals podcast on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network
1:32.0	on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:38.4	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Jonathan Fields.
1:42.4	Jonathan describes himself as a father, a husband, a maker, and a man who cares deeply about
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