The Secret to Learning & Problem-Solving in Life with Ben Orlin

There's this infinite series of actions you have to complete just to high five somebody. And this is sort of true of all motion, it feels like all change, anything that you want to happen, you can decompose it into an infinite series of steps, which certainly from a perspective of making change in your life is a very daunting thought that somehow any change is infinite in scope. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thought we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.

Ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thought strengthen or empowers 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.

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