Special Episode: Eric talks to Kids About Their Good and Bad Wolves!
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this very special episode, Eric meets with several students from a school in Colorado. Their counselor, Ms. Rebecca has shared and discussed the parable of the two wolves with her students, and with the parents’ permission, invited Eric to “interview” the students.
You’ll discover just how early the bad wolf starts appearing in our lives. But even at this young age, they have their own ways of trying to ensure they feed their good wolf.
Themes discussed in this episode:
- Dealing with dissatisfaction or discontentment
- Managing the inner critic
- Learning from our mistakes
- How comparison undermines self confidence and joy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:07.0 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:14.7 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:20.2 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:24.4 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:29.1 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:32.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:35.5 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:38.9 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:43.8 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:48.2 | how they feed their good wolf. Welcome to the one you feed. In today's episode we have something a little bit different. |
| 0:57.0 | Recently I was visiting a friend of mine who lives in Colorado and she mentioned that she had been teaching her students about the |
| 1:04.6 | parable of the good wolf and the bad wolf. After hearing this I thought, I bet those |
| 1:09.8 | kids have some really good ideas about how to feed your good wolf. So I asked if I could speak with them. |
| 1:16.1 | The reason I thought this would be so interesting is because as adults we can be so immersed in our wide and |
| 1:22.3 | complicated world that we can be so immersed in our wide and complicated world that we can forget how wide and complicated |
| 1:26.2 | our lives felt back when we were kids. |
| 1:29.1 | We tend to think of childhood as the simpler times, before we had to worry about things like dissatisfaction, |
| 1:35.1 | rumination, guilt, comparison, imposter syndrome, or insecurity. But when talking to these kids what surprised me was just how early in our |
| 1:46.1 | lives the bad wolf starts appearing. Maybe it's always there. That being said, these kids are great and even at this young age they have their own ways of trying to ensure they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:59.0 | One of the kids I spoke with is Emory. |
| 2:02.0 | Hi Emory. Hi Emory. |
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