Eric Zimmer

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

Yeah, yeah, 100%. matched

And I think, you know, I think our decision problems are, I mean, there's a lot of them, but that's one of the big ones. matched

Like you said, if you don't know where you're going, it's very difficult to choose a direction. matched

And I think the other is, you know, when I think about decisions is just... matched

The fact that we don't even realize we're making decisions all the time. matched

Things are, we're just doing, things are happening, you know, through conditioning, through habit, through the outer world. matched

It's just happening. matched

And we're not aware that there actually are decisions that we could make at lots of different points to move towards what's important to us. matched

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I mean, in the book, I defined values as what the best part of us has decided is worth wanting. matched

And desires are just the things we want, whether we want to want them or not, you know, they just show up and you just, I want that. matched

And I think that, you know, the more that our values and desires overlap each other, that's the best. matched

That's a far better situation. matched

But yeah, I don't think I control desire. matched

Let me say that differently. matched

I don't think I can control necessarily what I desire. matched

directly because it just appears and i want it i mean if i you know if we go back to buddhist psychology right they're talking all the time about um greed hatred and delusion as these three root poisons and the greed is just the grasping it's the wanting mind right and i don't think i have i have i have control of what i do with what the wanting mind pops up but i don't i don't choose what i suddenly want matched

Now, I can make it more likely that I'm going to want the things I want that I think are worth wanting by feeding my world around me with those things, right? matched

Like, if I truly value, I mean, I run into this one all the time. matched

If I truly value, say, a long-term relationship, but all I follow on Instagram are hot young women, I'm going to have a problem, right? matched

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