Matthew Quick

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

🗓️ 6 May 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Matthew Quick.Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film; The Good Luck of Right Now; and three young adult novels: Sorta Like a Rockstar ; BOY21; and Forgive me, Leonard Peacock His work has been translated into thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. Love May Fail will be published in 2015. All of his books have been optioned for film.In This Interview Matthew and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.The importance of the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we believe.Surrounding himself with people who help feed his good wolf.Growing up in a world where everyone told him he could never be a fiction writer.The Good Luck of Right Now.Working with the negative voices in our head.Synchronicity.Fiction writing as therapy.The line between positive thinking and delusion.Where the idea for the Silver Linings Playbook came from.Believing wildly in yourselfThe role of humor.His struggles with depression and anxiety.How hiding mental health conditions makes it worse.Polishing the bars of our prison.Matthew Quick LinksMatthew Quick HomepageMatthew Quick Amazon Author PageMatthew Quick on TwitterMatthew Quick on FacebookSome of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy:Mike Scott of the WaterboysRich RollTodd 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	We're the only people in the music and art to rally around.
0:11.3	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:13.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:17.8	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:23.4	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:27.8	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:32.5	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:35.4	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:38.8	But it's not just about thinking.
0:40.8	Our actions matter.
0:42.4	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:47.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:51.6	How they feed their good wolf.
0:57.6	Hey, everybody. Are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:09.7	I'm Roy Scovol.
1:10.6	And I'm Daniel van Kirk.
1:11.6	And it's the Pen Pals podcast.
1:13.2	Maybe you've had a pen pal before.
1:14.6	Well, you have two of them right now.
1:16.4	You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
1:19.3	Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is.
1:22.0	Send it to us.
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