The Long Game Playbook: Persistence, Patience, and Purpose in a Fast-Paced World with Dorie Clark

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode, Dorie Clark explains her long-game playbook about persistence, patience, and purpose in a fast-paced world. She explores the challenges of prioritizing long-term goals over daily distractions, the cultural obsession with busyness, and strategies for sustained motivation. Dorie also shares things that include saying no to good opportunities, embracing failure as a delay rather than a dead end, and breaking big goals into manageable steps. Exciting News!! My new book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How a Little Becomes a Lot: The Art of Small Changes for a More Meaningful Life, is now available!!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Key Takeaways: The contrast between short-term thinking and long-term goals. The cultural perception of busyness as a status symbol. Strategies for managing time and prioritizing meaningful work. The parable of two wolves representing good and bad impulses. The importance of making conscious choices in life and work. The challenge of saying no to good opportunities. Goal-setting techniques and the value of pursuing interesting choices. The role of persistence and resilience in achieving long-term objectives. Learning from failure and viewing setbacks as temporary. The significance of maintaining motivation through small, actionable steps. For full show notes:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you enjoyed this conversation with Dorie Clark, check out these other episodes: The Search for Meaningful Work with Bruce Feiler Purposeful Living: Strategies to Align Your Values and Actions with Victor Strecher By purchasing products and/or services from our sponsors, you are helping to support The One You Feed, and we greatly appreciate it. Thank you! This episode is sponsored by: David Protein bars deliver up to 28g of protein for just 150 calories—without sacrificing taste! For a limited time, our listeners can receive this special deal: buy 4 cartons and get the 5th free when you go to www.davidprotein.com/FEED Shopify – The commerce platform that helps you build, grow, and manage your business all in one place. Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/feed. Pebl – an AI-powered platform that helps companies hire and manage global teams in 185+ countries. Get a free estimate at hipebl.ai Brodo Broth: Shop the best broth on the planet with Brodo. Head to Brodo.com/TOYF for 20% off your first subscription order and use code TOYF for an additional $10 off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We know we have big projects that we want to accomplish. We know we have big goals that we want to tackle.
0:05.8	But we keep putting them off systematically because, oh my gosh, there's so many emails. I need to respond to the emails or I need to have this meeting or whatever the urgent thing is.
0:15.5	And so often our attention turns to that. And we find ourselves with never enough time to do the thing
0:22.1	that actually we claim is most important.
0:33.7	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the
0:39.3	thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:46.1	and yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:52.2	self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:55.2	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:58.1	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
1:01.5	But it's not just about thinking.
1:03.5	Our actions matter.
1:05.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:09.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
1:14.2	how they feed their good wolf.
1:18.0	There are so many moments in life where something we want just doesn't happen.
1:22.4	A project stalls out and opportunity falls through.
1:25.6	Something you are excited about doesn't go the way you hoped.
1:28.7	And I think it's really easy in those moments to make it mean more than it actually does.
1:33.7	One of the things that I really liked in this conversation with my guest Dory Clark is that we
1:38.0	talked about how often that turns out not to be true. Some things that look like failures are just
1:43.7	unfinished. Sometimes what feels like
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