Tom Asacker

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

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🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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[powerpress] Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Tom Asacker Tom Asacker, a popular speaker and acclaimed author, is recognized by Inc. Magazine, M.I.T., and Y.E.O. as a past member of their Birthing of Giants executive leadership program. He is a former General Electric executive, recipient of the George Land Innovator of the Year Award, and a former high-tech business owner. Asacker has been a strategic adviser to startups and Fortune-listed companies. He is the author of critically acclaimed books including his latest, I Am Keats. In This Interview, Tom Asacker and I Discuss... His book, I am Keats: Escape Your Mind and Free Yourself John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge That once you have a story, that's the end of any change How limiting a story is That we are spinning stories all of the time The difference between fact vs truth How attached we are to our perception of the world That technology promotes the myth that we are in control The truth that you can't learn about life by merely reading about it, you can only truly learn about life by living it Our reasoning mind that differentiates us as animals That life is a journey of paradoxes and ambiguity The importance of being empathizing and being mindful throughout this journey The desire for meaning How everyone is looking for meaning externally in their lives How that won't work because our culture is broken That it is a personal discovery journey to live life How we always have the opportunity to make other people's lives better but we have to be awake in life to do so The importance of control and certainty in our lives How to differentiate the voices in our heads That the end result of anything that we're seeking is a feeling Human nature is to be curious, compassionate and creative What would happen if characters in movies could control their scenes? The result would be crushingly boring movies. Can you see the correlation between this idea and life itself? Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once you have a story, that's the end of any kind of change in thinking.
0:13.9	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:15.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:20.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:26.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:30.3	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:35.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:37.9	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:41.3	But it's not just about thinking.
0:43.3	Our actions matter.
0:44.8	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:49.6	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:54.1	how they feed their good walls.
1:08.5	Hey everybody, are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:12.7	I'm Roy Scoval, and I'm Daniel van Kirk, and it's the Pen Pals podcast.
1:16.1	Maybe you've had a pen pal before, or you have two of them right now.
1:19.4	You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
1:22.4	Got a meme grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is, send it to us,
1:26.0	and we have guests like Will Ferrell, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne, Brett Goldstein, and Mandy Moore.
1:30.7	Listen to the Pen Pals podcast on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the I Heart Radio app,
1:35.4	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:40.0	Thanks for joining us.
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