Eric Zimmer

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396 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Apr

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How to Be a Better Human · Want to change your life? Start small! (w/ Eric Zimmer) · 6 Apr 2026 podcast

And part of me was going, what is what?

I thought I did all this work.

I thought I already covered all this.

I thought we've already been through this.

Like, what is it doing back here again?

And a therapist I was talking to said something I thought was valuable.

And he just basically said, you know what you've done is you've expanded the range of things that you can handle without that happening.

Right.

That used to happen to you, you know, every three weeks.

And now it happens to you every 20 years.

And so an analogy that I often think about with growth is it's like a spiral staircase.

And if you imagine going up a spiral staircase where there are things on the wall, there are pictures on the wall, you keep coming back around to those same pictures.

But ideally, you come around to them at a slightly higher level.

You come around with a slightly different perspective.

Maybe you have a little bit better light as you get higher up.

It doesn't mean that if you've got a history of being really mean to yourself inside that that just goes away.

But for you, the next time it comes up, you can relate to it and go, oh, here I am again.

All right, this is what my brain does.

I okay, I don't like it.

And I know how to talk to myself now in a way that I didn't know then.

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