Keep Trying- Mini Episode
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
JK Rowling was broke and depressed and her book had been rejected by 12 different publishers. This was right before Harry Potter was finally accepted and hit the big time.
It took me three different attempts to finally achieve sobriety.
Gone with the wind was rejected 38 times. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was rejected 121 times
Edison famously tried 1000 different approaches before getting the light bulb right.
We often cite these examples as encouragement to keep trying at things like business or success. What if we applied the same principles and tenacity to our internal development? What if we kept trying at emotional and mental change?
We have to do this stuff over and over again, change takes time. There are no easy answers or shortcuts to a life worth living.
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The Tale of Two Wolves
A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.
One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.
The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”
The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed
The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.
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| 1:33.0 | Hey everybody, it's Eric from the One You Feed back with another mini episode. |
| 1:46.0 | She was depressed, just gotten divorced, had a young daughter who she wasn't sure how she would feed, and then went on to be rejected by 12 publishers. |
| 1:58.0 | This is JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books. Before Harry Potter broke out, the Beatles famously were rejected. |
| 2:07.0 | We've all heard the stories about it took Edison a thousand times to make the light bulb. A thousand tries that didn't work and finally made it. |
| 2:15.0 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was rejected 121 times. It took me three tries before I achieved my first long term sobriety. |
| 2:26.0 | So these are the sort of stories that we hear all the time and they're usually presented to us in the sense of things like keep trying it business or keep submitting your book or in my case keep trying to get sober, which are all very valuable points and I think we all need reminded of that success doesn't often come right at the beginning. |
| 2:45.0 | It takes us a while to achieve success, but I wanted to talk about these ideas in a slightly different way today and I wanted to talk about them in the sense of what it takes to change the way our mind works and what it takes to change our emotional make up and how we deal with the world. |
| 3:04.0 | Because the things that we talk about on this show a lot, mindfulness and meditation and getting some distance from our thoughts and learning to question our thoughts and taking action even when we don't feel like it. |
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