Robert Sessions

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A native of South Dakota, Robert Sessions earned a B.A. from Drake University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. Before focusing on photography, for more than four decades he taught at Kirkwood Community College, Grinnell College, Luther College, and the University of Minnesota in Duluth.
As a photographer he works frequently with his wife, travel writer Lori Erickson. Together they produce Spiritual Travels, a website describing holy sites around the world, and Holy Rover, a blog hosted by Patheos, the world’s largest website on religion and spirituality. His photos also appear regularly in publications that include the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette and Group Tour Magazine. He is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers.
In addition, Sessions is the author of Becoming Real: Authenticity in an Age of Distractions and co-author of Working In America: A Humanities Reader. He has also published several dozen articles on environmental philosophy, the philosophy of work, ethics, and the philosophy of technology.
He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

In This Interview, Robert Sessions and I Discuss:

The One You Feed parable
His new book, Becoming Real: Authenticity in an Age of Distractions
That authenticity is something fundamental that is at the heart of what we are all seeking
How authenticity is impacted by variables found on the inside as well as in the world surrounding a person
The three main distractions that get in the way of authenticity
That work is a major context within which we discover ourselves
How bad habits surrounding technology can get in the way of being our authentic selves

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0:00.0	people need to understand that we need to learn to use our technologies so that they maximize the
0:06.1	things we really care about.
0:15.6	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:20.8	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:26.6	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward
0:32.8	negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:39.6	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,
0:45.1	our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:51.4	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:55.8	how they feed their good wolf.
1:10.0	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. I'll be bringing
1:15.4	you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:19.8	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success,
1:24.4	failure, whatever else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this business
1:28.8	for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. Now listen to my new
1:33.3	podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:41.9	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Robert Sessions. Robert is a native of South Dakota
1:48.2	and earned a BA from Drake University and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan.
1:53.7	Before focusing on photography, for more than four decades he taught at Kirkwood Community College,
1:59.0	Grinnell College, Luther College, and the University of Minnesota and Duluth. As a photographer,
2:04.7	he works frequently with his wife, travel writer, Laurie Erickson. Together, they produce spiritual
2:10.0	travels, a website describing holy sites around the world. Robert's most recent book is Becoming Real,
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