#32: Greg McKeown—How to Live and Work with Radical Clarity
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
According to Greg McKeown, the author of Essentialism, most of us have been living under the assumption that we can have it all -- we just have to cram it all into our lives.
As a result, we end up busy (not necessarily productive) and stretched too thin at work and at home. We're chained to our smartphones, hopping from disjointed task to disjointed task, not really focused on (or even clear about) what we want.
Essentialism changes all that. It helps us tune out all the unimportant things vying for our attention so we can discover and pursue a very small number of things of lasting value.
Nobody wants to fritter away their lives on their smart phones. Listen to this episode of the Building a Story Brand podcast with Donald Miller and special guest Greg McKeown, and you'll be inspired to live a life rich with clarity and meaning.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Building a Story Brand podcast where we believe if you confuse you'll lose. |
| 0:09.3 | Noise is the enemy and creating a clear message is the best way to grow your business. I'm |
| 0:14.7 | your host Donald Miller. I'm joined by my co-host, J.J. Peterson. |
| 0:18.4 | Hello. How are you, J.J. |
| 0:20.0 | Fantastic. How are you? I'm terrific. Okay, we're going to dive right in. I've heard about this trend. |
| 0:26.0 | Everything that hipsters do, teenagers and 20-somethings, I'm a bit of an ageist, I'm a sick. |
| 0:32.0 | But recently, I heard about a trend and I thought |
| 0:34.8 | that makes sense I would do that and it's this they're moving back to flip phones |
| 0:40.9 | really I'm not kidding somebody recently said that they'd come back |
| 0:45.1 | from Portland, Oregon. Of course it was Portland. Of course it was Portland and that |
| 0:49.7 | the kids have flip phones. They won't... You just use the phrase the kids. They are children. The kids. I went down to |
| 0:56.9 | Burger up the other day because my wife placed it to go order and she waited in the car. I walked in and |
| 1:01.8 | I'm like there are children running this place, |
| 1:05.7 | eating here, and drinking alcohol. |
| 1:07.5 | I didn't know whether to call the authorities and say, these children. |
| 1:10.9 | With their flip phones. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah. Hasn't hit Nashville yet. |
| 1:14.0 | No, but it will. |
| 1:15.0 | It will. |
| 1:16.0 | In about 10 years. |
| 1:18.0 | No offense natural. |
| 1:20.0 | No offense. It's kind of true. |
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