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

It's not that I wasn't a competent writer. matched

I knew I could write a book, but I wanted to write a great book. matched

And I really doubted that I could do that because the evidence I had of writing was of being, okay, probably better than average writer, but that's it. matched

And so I think that's part of what made it really hard. matched

Yeah, it was a lot of self-doubt. matched

And so, for example, if we want to talk about these choice points and self-control, matched

Let's say it's, okay, it's, you know, I carved out, say, Monday afternoons to write. matched

It's time to start writing, and I'm just feeling all kinds of resistance, almost dread. matched

So if I examine what's happening, so I've done all the structural. matched

I know that I'm going to write. matched

I'm only going to make myself do it for 15 minutes. matched

I'm going to set a timer. matched

I'm going to block all my distractions. matched

I've done all the structural stuff. matched

I'm positioned. matched

but I'm resisting. matched

When I paid attention to that resistance, most of it was based on there was just this self-doubt going in the background. matched

It was essentially feeling like what you're going to do is going to suck and that's going to feel terrible. matched

So just don't do it. matched

So what I had to learn to do was what can I do with self-doubt in that moment? matched

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