Eric Zimmer

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

And that's hard to suss out. matched

And so in the book, what I then do is once you sort of have your values, then you run into a couple of conflicts that we all run into all the time. matched

And the first is the simple sort of values versus desire conflict. matched

I call it what do you want most versus what do you want now conflict. matched

You know, that's the me sitting on the couch exercising. matched

What do I want most? matched

I want to be healthy for a bunch of reasons. matched

What do I want now? matched

I want to sit on the couch and keep reading Substack because there's lots of great stuff on it. matched

Those can be tricky to resolve, but they're pretty easy to identify. matched

The much harder kind, and I'm sure you spend a lot of time thinking about this, is when you have values-to-values conflicts. matched

Particularly if those values are, there's something called the values wheel that plots values. matched

And if you've got values on the opposite side of that wheel, they're hard to reconcile. matched

I think a lot of people have one very classic one if they have children, which is the work and family value. matched

They value their career. matched

And I'm not saying they value it for money. matched

They might value it for lots of very real and good reasons. matched

But they also value their kids. matched

And those things are in conflict. matched

I don't think they're ever not going to be in conflict to a certain degree. matched

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