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 don't have enough motivation.

And when we believe that and buy into it, you're right.

Our motivation is down, and we almost bring the thing into reality.

At the same time, we can't BS ourselves.

I can't say like, when I was writing my book, I couldn't be like, keep going, Eric, you're like the next Hemingway.

This is one of the best nonfiction books ever written, right?

Like, my brain was mostly going like, has anyone written a more boring sentence since an accounting textbook, right?

Like, so I can't BS myself.

So we can't believe that we're capable of achieving great things, but what we at first, but what we can do is start from where we are, not where we wish we were, but start from where we are and measure success in ways that are reasonable and allow that to accumulate.

Yeah, you're very perceptive in that because little by little, I mean, one thing is you just pick like you make the thing really small.

But another way of applying little by little is you break something up into smaller pieces.

So for me, I have the same issue on my task list.

And when something on my task list keeps getting moved, it looks something more like this.

Get video done for X project.

That's the task.

That is not a task.

That is about eight different steps.

I have to decide what am I talking about?

Then I have to build the talk.

Then I have to practice delivering it, right?

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