What Can Be Found When Losing Sight with Andrew Leland
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Leland shares a deeply personal story of losing his vision due to retinitis pigmentosa. He shares some of the challenges and necessary adjustments that come with acquiring with his gradual disability. With courage and humor, Andrew navigates the complex emotional terrain of coming to terms with his changing abilities and sheds light on what can be found when losing sight.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- More deeply understand the journey of acquiring a disability
- Understand the nature of identity and how it changes throughout stages of life
- Develop compassion and curiosity for those with with unique challenges
- Identify what it means to balance independence and interdependance
- Foster better communication for those living with differing abilities
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| 0:00.0 | I like totally saw the owl and like what it was doing and it was like a moment where I realized this is what blindness can be. |
| 0:08.0 | It doesn't have to be the exclusion. It doesn't have to be a separation. Like there was nothing missing from that moment for me. |
| 0:13.7 | It was me and my son enjoying this experience together |
| 0:17.5 | and vision was secondary. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:33.7 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:39.3 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, |
| 0:45.2 | self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things |
| 0:51.6 | that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about |
| 0:55.6 | thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life |
| 1:01.4 | worth living. |
| 1:03.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how |
| 1:07.3 | they feed their good wolf. My name is Chris Moody, host of the new podcast Finding Matt Drudge. |
| 1:27.0 | I'll be taking you on a journey to find the mysterious Media Mogul Matt Drudge, founder of the |
| 1:32.0 | Drudge Report. |
| 1:33.0 | Along the way, I'll talk to people who have worked with him, dined with him, and fought with him, |
| 1:37.0 | taking listeners into private conversations, all in an attempt to get a better understanding of who Drudge is and what motivates him. |
| 1:44.0 | Hopefully he'll even sit down with us. |
| 1:46.2 | Listen to Finding Matt Drudge on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your |
| 1:50.8 | podcasts. |
| 1:53.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:55.0 | Our guest on this episode is Andrew Leeland. |
| 1:57.0 | He's the author of The Country of the Blind, |
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