Matthew Quick

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week we talk to Matthew Quick about mental health Our guest this week is Matthew Quick. He is here for his second visit to The One You Feed. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film; as well as many other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. His latest book is called Every Exquisite Thing Our Sponsor this Week is Casper Mattress Visit casper.com/wolf and use the promo code “wolf” to get $50 off!! In This Interview, Matthew Quick and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable Short term pleasure versus long term gain Imposter Syndrome Thinking that money and fame will create happiness Removing the stigma of mental health Intrinsic vs extrinsic goals What drives us The voice of depression Finding the middle ground between rebellion and conformity The power of literature to allow us to see different worlds and possibilities How sometimes quitting is the right approach Parental understanding How his father thought he was crazy to leave a job to become a writer The pressure to be someone that everyone else wants you to be Letting our children be who they are How lonely people need to find each other How we need music and art to rally around Social anxiety and depression The role of mental health in creating art The artist as the canary in the coal mine How being adjusted to a sick society is not healthy How do we know if we are artistic, mentally ill or just different Affecting an air of superiority over "normal" people For more show notes visit our websiteSee 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	Weird, lonely people need music and art to rally around.
0:11.2	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:18.1	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:23.7	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:29.7	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think
0:35.9	things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:38.9	But it's not just about thinking.
0:41.0	Our actions matter.
0:42.5	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, how they feed their good wolf.
0:53.6	Music moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:12.0	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Matthew Quick. He is here for the second time to visit The One You Feed. Matthew is the New York Times best-selling author of The Silver Linings Playbook,
1:17.5	which was made into an Oscar-winning film. He's also the author of many other novels. His work has
1:22.5	been translated into more than 30 languages. It's received a Penn Hemingway Award, honorable mention, was an LA Times
1:29.2	book prize finalist, a New York Times book review editor's choice, and selected by Nancy Pearl
1:35.1	as one of the summer's best books for NPR. His latest book is called Every Exquisite Thing.
1:41.4	Hey, everyone, I wanted to also talk again about the One You Feed Facebook group.
1:46.2	I made a mistake in last week's episode and told you to go to one you feed.net slash Facebook, which
1:51.8	does not work. I'll save you the boring technical details. But if you want to join the group,
1:56.9	go to one you feed.net slash group. We've had a great first week. Lots of people have joined
2:02.9	some interesting conversations starting to happen and we'd love to have you over there. So one you feed.net
2:08.4	slash group or go to Facebook and search for the one you feed discussion group. Thanks. And here is the
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