Rainn Wilson

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

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🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Rainn Wilson about the courage to be hopeful

Rainn Wilson is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. Wilson also voiced the alien villain Gallaxhar in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) and starred in the police procedural Backstrom
Today he’s equally well-known for his millions of Twitter followers and the philosophy website he founded, SoulPancake, which creates media about life's big questions. and wrote a New York Times bestselling book of the same name.
He just released a memoir called The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy.

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In This Interview Rainn Wilson and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
His new book The Bassoon King
How spirituality got a bad name
How spirituality is everything that we don't have in common with the monkeys
How happiness is not an if then proposition
The difference between happiness and joy
The balance between ambition and acceptance
How cynicism robs us of the gift of joy
How much easier it is to be cynical than to be hopeful
Bombing on Broadway
How success doesn't mean the end of the difficulties of life
The Baha'i faith
How the Baha'i faith encourages equality between women and men
Thomas Merton
Reconciling a loving God with the terrible things that happen in the world

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0:00.0	We're all going to die. We're all going to experience pain. We're all going to suffer.
0:04.1	What we have to do as humanity is decrease that suffering that we can control.
0:16.4	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:21.5	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:28.6	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:34.6	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:41.3	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:47.8	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:53.6	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
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1:41.5	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Rain Wilson, best known for his
1:46.3	Emmy-nominated role as Dwight Trude on NBC's The Office. Wilson also voiced the alien villain
1:52.3	in Monsters vs. Aliens and starred in the police procedural Baxstrom. But today he's equally
1:58.1	well known for the philosophy website he founded called Soul Pancake, which creates media about
2:03.7	life's big questions, including a New York Times bestselling book of the same name. He just
2:09.2	released a memoir called The Bassoon King, My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiacy.
2:15.2	Hey everybody, it's Eric, and before we get started, I want to let everyone know that there is
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