Eric Zimmer

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

are so hard because I can just cut heroin, alcohol, cocaine, it's just out of my life, whatever, no big deal, ultimately. matched

But I can't cut food out of my life. matched

I could potentially cut my phone out of my life, but I probably wouldn't because it brings a lot of benefit. matched

A lot of these smaller addictions we talk about are tricky in that way because we may not be able to have the beautiful clarity of zero. matched

It certainly was a lot of those ideas I recognized in retrospect, obviously. matched

By the time I wrote this book, like I said, I'd had about 30 years in recovery. matched

I'd been hosting a podcast for 12 years. matched

I'd coached hundreds of people from around the world on making behavioral change. matched

I had a lot to draw from. matched

I mean, you know, there's one idea in the book that gets named explicitly, and it does form a lot of the thinking around the book, and I learned it very early in recovery. matched

And it was, sometimes you can't think your way into right action, you have to act your way into right thinking. matched

And that's a really beautiful idea. matched

It's a really true idea in my life. matched

It has been again and again and again with almost everything. matched

There are times my mind just is resistant to whatever the thing is. matched

It's either I want to do this thing, like I've decided I'm going to do this positive thing and there's resistance to doing it, or it's the resistance on the other side. matched

I've decided I'm not going to do this thing. matched

And action is a really powerful way through that. matched

If we can just get ourselves into action, then the feelings come afterwards. matched

And there's a, I tell a story in the book of when I was early in recovery, I had a sponsor and he made me at every meeting, stand by the door and shake everybody's hand as they came in and introduce myself. matched

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