Eric Zimmer

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

That feels inherently good. matched

And I think that's part of why I talk about little by little and behavior is because when we do what we say we're going to do, when we make and keep promises to ourselves, there is an internal congruence that feels good. matched

And we can tune into that at any point. matched

And the converse is true. matched

We all know what it feels like when we say I'm going to do X and we don't do it. matched

There's an internal, like, it just doesn't feel good. matched

So in the beginning, I think for me, what it was, was that I started to have meaning because I felt like, God, I'm on the right track. matched

And I started to have hope because I saw other people who were like me, whose lives look completely different. matched

And very quickly then I also started to be able to help other people because I'm in treatment now and I'm on day 21, but in comes Bob who's on day two. matched

And while I may not have a lot to share about recovery, I know what it's like to get from two to 21 and immediately I can now be of help and service to someone else. matched

So my life started to have real meaning. matched

Fast forward to today, part of the problem with anhedonia and an inability to feel pleasure is you don't feel those things. matched

And so I then kind of come back to, you know, but does my life have meaning? matched

Is it important? matched

And for me now, that question is always yes. matched

I feel like I'm on the right track. matched

I feel like my life has a purpose, a meaning. matched

I do things that feel valuable to me. matched

There's an interesting, you may have heard this, and I think maybe it was Paul Bloom, the psychologist, that I got this idea from, which is basically you can measure people's happiness. matched

They tend to do it two ways. matched

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