Eric Zimmer

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869 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg · How Small Actions Rewrite Identity (with Eric Zimmer) · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

Or are we describing something in a way that is taking people's agency away and making them feel like, oh, well, I just can't do anything about it because, you know, big media, big tech is pulling all the strings. matched

And I think that's a bigger question. matched

I have a couple of friends who are writing, one wrote a book, another's working on it, called basically Little Addictions, about these little things like this. matched

And I don't know whether addiction is the right word or not. matched

I think it depends on the person, honestly. matched

But I think absolutely it is analogous back to what you said, in that I keep saying I'm not going to do something, then I keep doing it. matched

That is a problem whatever way you want to slice it and whatever you want to call it. matched

Yeah, I mean, it's hard to fully go back into it because even though I understand and lived it, watching it from the outside, you're like, this person is insane. matched

I mean, in the second step of the 12-step program, you know, is basically, you know, came to believe that a higher power could restore us to sanity because the actions of an addict are to a certain degree insane. matched

They make no sense from any perspective except that one. matched

And the only way I know how to describe it is it was just a shrinking of my world until only one thing mattered. matched

And it was a gradual process. matched

But by the end, everything in my life was oriented around getting high or almost maybe not getting dope sick, which are two sides of the same coin. matched

Addiction is a nasty spiral because what happens is you start going into addiction because there is something you're feeling that you can't, you don't know what to do with. matched

And the substance or the behavior changes matched

It makes you feel better. matched

So fine, that goes on for a little while, but at a certain point, you begin to sacrifice some of what matters to you in life. matched

And now you feel bad about that, in addition to whatever the original thing was. matched

So what do you do with that? matched

Well, you use, because that's the way you do it. matched

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