Eric Zimmer
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869 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Eric Zimmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, at a certain point, I identified more as a person in recovery than I did as an addict.
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And at a certain point, I think we all go through this.
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We identify in different ways.
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And identities are interesting because they are useful right up until they're not, right?
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You know, there was a point for me where I still relate.
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If you ask me, you know, if I went to a meeting, I'd say, my name is Eric and I'm an alcoholic, right?
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I still relate that way.
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But there was a lot of sub-identities under that that ultimately ended up getting jettisoned because they were no longer useful for me.
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And so I think, yeah, I mean, taking the behavior does a couple things.
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One is it starts to shape your identity.
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Secondly is...
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that we get better at whatever the thing is.
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It becomes easier.
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And then the third thing is that motivation tends to go up when we feel good about ourselves and our chances of success.
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And it tends to go down when we feel bad about ourselves and our ability to do something.
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So by doing a behavior, I have now probably helped my motivation a little bit.
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Particularly if I take the time to go, okay, good job, nice work, like bring that in.
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And that's why little by little kind of works is that by doing the little action, you get to be successful, which both raises your motivation and also makes the activity slightly more easy as you go on.
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And so that's kind of why that works.
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Yeah.
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