The Price of Wanting: How Desire Shapes Happiness, Fulfillment, and Who We Become with Eric Jorgenson

You don't need to be born into a certain situation or a certain level of sort of neurochemical happiness to become a happy person. There are people who are, but for the rest of us, like there is always a change in that slope that you can make through deliberate sort of attempts and practices. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-consciousness. pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.

Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. I had a moment a few years ago When I realized I was carrying around dozens of half-formed desires that were just draining me.

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