Welcome, I'm your host, Greg McEwan. I'm the author of Two New York Times Best Sellers

effortless and sensualism, and I am here with you. Whether you're the CEO or want to be

the CEO of your own life, I want to learn how to be able to achieve our highest point

of contribution together. Today I will share a fascinating story. Something counterintuitive

I've learned and some actionable advice for putting it into place. By the end of this

episode, you will be able to accomplish more by doing less, accomplish more output with

less spin. So let's begin.

Remember to teach the ideas in this podcast to someone else within the next 24 to 48 hours

of listening. That will help them. It will help you. I am right now in Stockholm, Sweden,

doing a keynote for a series of senior executives. I am about to go and see the Vassa. For those

of you that have read effortless, you remember perhaps the story of the Vassa, but I can't

be here and not talk about this experience because I've always wanted to actually see

the ship behind this true story of the most important ship ever built in Sweden. It all

started 400 years ago, Gustav II, who was the king of Sweden at the time, saw this vital

need to upgrade his arm-arider of ships. He's trying to protect his people from all the

growing naval powers that surrounded them then, and his attention was drawn to building

a giant military warship. He found the ship builder and tasked him to build what became

known as the Vassa. The project was of the utmost importance to King Gustav, so much so that

he allocated a whole forest, a thousand trees to provide the lumber for the project. He opened

the Royal coffers too. He assured Hyberson that he would have an almost unlimited budget to

complete this project successfully. But unfortunately, the king did not have a clear vision of what

the final product would look like, or rather he kept changing his vision of what the final product

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