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

I was a homeless heroin addict.

I weighed 100 pounds.

My skin was yellow and jaundiced from hepatitis C. The prosecutor told me I was facing up to 50 years in prison.

And you'd see me go into a counselor's office, and they say, very reasonably, we think you need to go to long-term treatment.

And me saying, no, thank you.

And then I went back to my room, and I saw with...

real clarity that I was going to die or go to jail if I left that building.

And it was going to happen soon.

So if we were filming the movie of my life, that would be the pivotal scene.

That would be the big moment, right?

We'd have the emotional strings in the background.

That would be the whole thing.

And sure, that's an important moment.

But it's only important because of the thousands of little choices I made after that.

All of the off-camera moments

that add up.

And I think that's sort of a way of tying the big and the small together, is that yes, there are big moments, there are big epiphanies, there are big questions to answer in our lives.

But that's just part of it, because the rest of it is the how we live those things out.

And that can really only be done choice by choice, action by action, day by day.

Well, I was in a position, whether fortunate or unfortunate, where staying in long-term treatment was both an option for me – I happened to just be poor enough that it could happen – and highly incented by the courts to do the same thing.

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