The Journey of Life Through Songs with Frank Turner

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

How his songs represent some of his values, like kindness and how we need to remember to be more kind in our interactions with each other.
Learning persistance and his drive to keep going and never give up when faced with difficulty.
Why he wrote the song, Get Better, which is about resilience and remembering there is always somewhere to go
The importance of meaningful friendships in life
How life will always have challenges and we can make the choice to continue on, knowing it will get better

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0:00.0	I suppose I could sort of give up.
0:02.1	Have you want to put it rest on my laurels at any point in my life?
0:04.9	But thus far, like hacking away further has led to unbalanced better things.
0:10.4	And I think that that gives me a degree of optimism.
0:20.7	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:22.5	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:27.3	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:32.9	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:37.2	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
0:41.9	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:44.8	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:48.2	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:51.7	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:56.5	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
1:01.0	How they feed their good wolf.
1:17.3	Hi, I'm Adam Grant, and you may know me from the podcast Work Life.
1:21.0	I started a new show with a TED Audio Collective called Rethinking,
1:24.5	where I talk to some of today's greatest minds about how they see the world.
1:28.4	Here from scientists, artists and entrepreneurs,
1:31.1	on the assumption they challenge and the mindset that fueled their success.
1:35.3	Guests include Brunei Brown, Lim Manuel Miranda, Mark Cuban, and more.
1:40.4	Listen to Rethinking on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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