How to Stop Making Hard Things Harder | Noah Rasheta

When we increase our awareness about our propensities or tendencies, then we can act more skillfully and stop doing things that may be unskillful. 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-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've joked that if you boiled down everything I teach, you'd get one line. Stop making things worse. When I said that to Noah Roshetta, he told me it's a fair summary of the four noble truths in Buddhism. Life is difficult, and we don't need to make it any more difficult than it already is.

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