We cannot get into any deeper thinking, any deeper meaningful challenge when we're constantly flinging between pings and dangs all day.

Welcome to the One You Feed.

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

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

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Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Neil Pasricha, a New York Times bestselling author.

Neil's books have been published in over a dozen languages, and he spent seven years in counting on bestseller lists and sold millions of copies.

His first book, The Book of Awesome, was based on his blog, 1000 Awesome Things, which scored over 50 million hits and twice won the Webby Award for the best blog in the world.

His new book is The Happiness Equation, Want Nothing, and Do Anything, equals Have Everything.

Hi, Neil. Welcome to the show. Hi, Eric. Thanks for having me.

I'm excited to have you on. We're going to discuss your most recent book called The Happiness Equation. Want Nothing, plus do anything, equals Have Everything.

But before we do, let's start like we always do with the parable. There's a grandmother who's talking with her grandson. She says, in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always at battle.

One is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love. And the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

And the grandson stops and thinks about it for a second and looks up at his grandmother and he says, well, grandmother, which one wins?

And the grandmother says, the one you feed. So I'd like to start off by asking you what that parable means to you in your life and in the work that you do.

You know, I find my bad wolf coming out sometimes, right? And usually when that happens, when I'm yelling my kids or when I get into fight with my wife or when I like him, I'm rude over email to somebody who works for me.

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