What We Can Learn From Our Bad Wolf with Matthew Quick

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.

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Matthew Quick and I Discuss What We Can Learn From Our Bad Wolf and …

His book, We Are the Light
What drew him to Jungian analysis and his ideas on synchronicity
His healing journey and what he learned about himself
Learning to face his pain from a sober light
Losing access to a creative part of him when he stopped drinking
How his work with his analyst replaced the alcohol in his life
The importance of community
What the term “father hunger” means
His unique relationship with his analyst
How he learned to redeem his father
The important themes he covers in his latest novels
Doing the hard work in the second half of life
The respect he has developed for the craft of novel writing

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0:00.0	You do need to go through difficulties in order to glean the information that you need
0:06.3	to create something that transcends you that is better than your daily reality.
0:18.7	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:23.9	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:30.9	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:36.9	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:43.6	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes
0:50.2	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:56.0	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:07.2	Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch. It's moving from
1:21.5	side to side. You're getting very sleepy. Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will,
1:28.3	you're going to start liking long-form journalism. Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast
1:34.0	where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week. I'm that host.
1:39.6	Listen to the story of the week on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your
1:43.8	podcast. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Matthew Quick. He's the author of
1:49.9	Nine Novels, one of which is the New York Times bestseller, The Silver Lining's Playbook,
1:54.7	which was made into an Oscar-winning film. Matthew's work has been translated into more than 30
1:59.8	languages and he's received a Penn Hemingway Award Honorable mention. He was the LA Times book
2:05.6	prize finalist and a New York Times book review editor's choice. Today Matthew and Eric discuss
2:11.5	his book We Are the Light. I'm Matthew. Welcome back. Hey, it's great to be here with you today, Eric.
2:18.2	Thank you for having me. So when you were on last time, I said you were our first three-time guest.
2:24.8	Yes. And you were not the only person in that club. Some other people have joined you,
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