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

I can only read one at a time. matched

When that goes away, that's an anhedonia signal for me. matched

I just don't worry about it very much anymore. matched

Well, I mean, I think values are ultimately the guide to life, right? matched

If you don't know what's valuable, you don't know what direction to go in. matched

at all. matched

So that means any progress you make may be completely in the wrong direction, or maybe not even wrong direction, but just in an unsatisfying direction. matched

So I think they're really important. matched

In a chapter in the book about motivational complexity, I sort of try and boil it down to values and desires. matched

I think that's an oversimplification of the psychological world and what's going on inside of us. matched

But I think it's kind of a useful oversimplification. matched

And so I think values are really important. matched

People define them differently. matched

I think they're hard to suss out. matched

I have one exercise in the book itself and then a whole bunch in the exercises at the end of the book of different ways of trying to figure out some of what you value. matched

I see the way most people do. matched

It's not very effective, which is they're given a list of about 100 values and they're asked to pick. matched

And for me, I'm like, well, all of them, right? matched

How do I choose between honesty and freedom and responsibility and kindness? matched

Yeah, I agree with all of them. matched

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