250: Greg McKeown - Essentialism • The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) • The Cost of Saying Yes
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Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 14 August 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" and his writing has appeared or been covered by Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, and Harvard Business Review. He graduated with an MBA from Stanford University. Originally from London, England, Greg now lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and their four children.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Greg's desire to teach and write
- Permission to consider a different path
- What is essentialism?
- The undisciplined pursuit of more
- The paradox of success
- The work of life
- Living life reactively
- The disciplined pursuit of less
- How to filter through the noise
- You have a choice... you don't have to do what other people are doing
- JOMO – the joy of missing out
- Following the path less travelled
- Creating a space to explore
- 3 phases of essentialism
- If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will
- The birth of Greg's daughter and how essentialism was born
- Saying no gracefully
- The cost of saying yes
- The difference between counterfeit play and real play
- Your mind is being renewed with play
- Explore what is essential
- Greg's life-changing morning ritual
- Reading is thinking with another person's mind
- The practice of journaling
- Why some people underestimate time
- Creating healthy boundaries
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| 0:00.0 | Play is a brain on fire. Play is purposeful exploration is creative. Play itself is purposeful. |
| 0:11.3 | It is itself enjoyable. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 250. |
| 0:23.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marty Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:29.0 | This week our featured guest is Greg McEwen. |
| 0:31.0 | He's the author of the New York Times Best Seller, |
| 0:33.8 | Essentialism The Discipline Pursuit a Less. |
| 0:36.4 | Some other notes on Greg. His writings appear to be covered by Fast Company, Fortune, |
| 0:41.4 | Huffpost, and Harvard Business Review. He graduated with an |
| 0:44.6 | MBA from Stanford University and he's originally from London, England, but he now |
| 0:49.1 | lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and four children. |
| 0:52.0 | 250 episodes. |
| 0:54.0 | Wow, this is so exciting. |
| 0:56.0 | We are so happy that we've been doing this consistently |
| 0:59.0 | for almost four years, actually a month from today, |
| 1:02.0 | just about, we are going to hit our four year |
| 1:04.4 | mark of the podcast and we I don't think we've missed one episode maybe one I |
| 1:09.6 | think one week out of all the weeks up until now we have given you guys an episode a week and we |
| 1:14.8 | are going to keep that going. So super excited and we get to celebrate today's |
| 1:19.2 | episode with Greg McEwen who is awesome and his book essentialism is just one of those books that I think everyone |
| 1:25.9 | should get. Of course I feel that way about all of our guests. But what it does is it helps the |
| 1:31.2 | average person right now who is just doing more, wanting more, consuming more, |
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