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

But what I remember is it just made life come alive to me. matched

And for whatever reason... matched

I think I already had the sort of depression that numbs life out, that makes it gray. matched

I already had that. matched

I was a kleptomaniac at age 10. matched

And I think it was because just stealing made me feel something. matched

So even by 10, I think I had sort of deadened things. matched

And I mean, we could go into why or what. matched

So in the beginning, I think addiction was a mechanism of connecting me back to life. matched

But as my life began to shrink from addiction, yeah, then that weight began to just take on a life of its own. matched

I think people... matched

People turn to substances for different reasons. matched

I mean, I think for the average person, it's just a pleasure-seeking activity, generally. matched

But there's a lot of people, if we ask them, who wouldn't show up as having a problem, who would tell you that it's to relieve stress at the end of the day. matched

And so we know that addiction rates go way up if you have more what they would call adverse childhood experiences. matched

There's actually a survey out there called the ACE and it just lists all different kinds of things that can happen to you as a child that are not ideal. matched

The higher you score on that, the more likely you are to be an addict. matched

Exactly. matched

Yeah, it's not good. matched

So addiction is often, for many people, it's a solution, right? matched

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