#175 - Greg McKeown - Essentialism Explained: How To Focus On What Matters In Life
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yes, hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is none other than Greg |
| 0:07.4 | McEwan, New York Times best selling author of Essentialism and today could be pretty life-changing. |
| 0:15.7 | If you were in the right space to hear this, the message of Essentialism is one that has |
| 0:20.2 | had quite a profound impact on the way that I see the world and operate within it. |
| 0:25.1 | So if you ever feel busy but not productive, like you're overworked but underutilised, |
| 0:30.6 | struggling with information overload and stretched to thin, this could be the antidote that |
| 0:37.2 | you're looking for. Success breeds options and opportunities. The problem with that is |
| 0:42.7 | those options and opportunities often undermine the things which led to success in the first |
| 0:47.8 | place. So today, Greg teaches us the Art of Essentialism, how not to fall into undisciplined |
| 0:54.3 | pursuit of more, how to avoid the trivial many and instead focus our attention onto |
| 0:59.2 | the vital few. This is a real antidote to the always shiny, novel, new chasing that |
| 1:07.6 | next thing format that we all fall into or at least I certainly have. Greg's phenomenal, |
| 1:16.7 | I really appreciate him coming on and he has a brand new podcast which is coming out |
| 1:21.7 | very soon. If you enjoy the things that we talk about today then you will love his new |
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