Eric Zimmer is the host of the award-winning podcast The One You Feed. Through hundreds of interviews, Eric has learned a lot about healthy habits, mindfulness, and sustainable behavior change. We chat about changing environments, habits, and feeding your “good wolf.”

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Cheat Sheet

The true meaning of the parable behind Eric's podcast, "The One You Feed"

What Eric personally does to feed his "good wolf"

Why meditation is so important to Eric and the difference it has made in his own life

How the stimulus --> response cycle works and how you can use it to spin the stories you tell yourself so they are more positive

Eric’s personal journey of recovery and how it led him to where he is today

The importance of community and the environment you live in

How to make environmental tweaks to help establish positive habits and achieve your goals

The effective way to figure out for yourself what is really important

Why happiness isn’t something out there in the future (and how you can achieve it in your own life starting now)

Links

OneYouFeed.net

The One You Feed Episodes (Zack's Recommendations)

Eric's Story

Norman Rosenthal

James R Doty

Russell Simmons

TPS92: No More Underpants w/ Steve Kamb

TPS102: Essentialism w/ Greg McKeown

Man's Search for Meaning

Headspace app

The Willpower Instinct

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Book, tool, ritual

Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Tool: Calendly, Evernote, TextExpander

Ritual: A morning routine

Connect with Eric Zimmer

@OneYouFeed

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