Just a little bit of refinement in my thinking or the way I look at things could be all that it matters, right?

So it's just sometimes you're off course just two degrees and somebody runs into you and you just

Re-correct one degree and you're like, you know what?

I can be a little bit more grateful in my life because that person's just overflowing with joy

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 to add 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.

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Skip Pritchard. Skip is the fifth president of OCLC, a global library cooperative that supports thousands of libraries and making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world.

Amongst Skip's many passions is his leadership insights blog where he interviews authors and thought leaders and shares his views on a number of topics. His new book is the book of mistakes, nine secrets to creating a successful future.

Hi, Skip. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Glad to be here.

It's a pleasure to have you on. We are sitting in the company that you are the CEO of OCLC. You've got a little studio here. And so we're getting to record here, which is really great.

And it's interesting because my mom worked here years ago. So kind of a fun place for me to be right now.

Full circle. How long ago was that? That would have been in the 80s. I was probably like 12.

Well, it's changed quite a bit since then, but our mission remains the same of supporting libraries around the world.

And as listeners of the show know, there is nothing I love more than a library. So good work. Glad to hear that.

Yes, my favorite place is in the world. All right. Well, let's start like we always do with the parable.

There's a grandfather who's talking with his grandson. He 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 grandfather. He says, well, grandfather, which one wins? And the grandfather says the one you feed.

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