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

They think about it for a second.

They look up at their grandparent and they say, well, which one wins?

And the grandparent says, the one you feed.

It would have been in some church basement in Columbus, Ohio, probably somewhere around 30 years ago when I was dealing with heroin addiction.

And somebody in a meeting told that story and I immediately got it.

I think we all do, right?

It's a parable.

The point of a parable is you hear it and you're like, oh, I know it.

Okay.

but it was really resonant to me at the time because my bad wolf was destroying me.

I don't even know if I was feeding it so much as it was just eating me, but I was able to see really clearly at that point in my life.

And luckily I had people helping me see this.

Like there are certain ways of acting and thinking that,

that lead me towards my recovery.

And there are other ways of acting and thinking that lead me further down the death spiral that my addiction had become.

And so it resonated really, really strongly with me.

Now, it was a lot of years later when I started the podcast with the parable, but it still spoke to me.

It just felt like an easy jumping off point to talk about the things that matter.

Yeah, well, if you were going to film the movie of my life, you would start by seeing me in a dilapidated old tuberculosis hospital in Columbus, Ohio in the winter that had been turned into a detox center.

And you'd see me go in there and I was in bad shape.

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