Why We Need to Find Awesome with Neil Pasricha

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Neil is the the author of nine books and journals including: The Book of Awesome, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Happiness Equation, originally written as a 300-page love letter to his unborn son on how to live a happy life, He also hosts an Apple “Best of” award-winning podcast called 3 Books where he is on an ‘epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. and he also shares his current writing on this blog and in a series of newsletters. In this episode, Eric and Neil discuss his latest book, Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together In This Interview, Neil and I Discuss. See 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	I'm trying my best to get out of my own head, but of course, it's hard to do that.
0:05.8	As soon as they put the camera on the front of the iPhone, we were asking for trouble
0:09.1	with that one.
0:10.1	Selfies went up.
0:11.3	We're all looking at ourselves all the time now.
0:21.8	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:23.8	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:28.5	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:33.9	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:38.2	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:42.9	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:45.8	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:49.3	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:52.7	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:57.6	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how
1:02.0	they feed their good wolf.
1:08.2	Hi, it's Bethany Frankel.
1:19.2	My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me.
1:22.5	And now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives.
1:26.1	That's where my new podcast, Rewives Comes In.
1:28.5	This isn't your typical rewatch podcast.
1:30.5	I'm bringing on unexpected thought leaders and celebrities to give their take on the chaos.
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