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The Greg McKeown Podcast

323. Humans Weren't Designed For This (Replay)

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever set a New Year's resolution to get healthier? It's an annual tradition to sign up for gym memberships and then never to use them. It's so established that the entire gym business model is based upon people not actually using the service. After all, it's long been thought that to significantly improve your mental and physical health takes expensive gym memberships, newfangled equipment at home, workout trainers and more. But what if all of this is false? What we know now is that there is a much simpler and easier alternative. Today, I have invited Anna McKeown back to the show to talk about this. Anna has this uncanny ability to cut through the noise to get to what's really essential. She does it in conversations in our marriage all the time, and she's doing it right now with her new essential intent for the year. As you'll see, by the end of this episode, you will be able to establish the simplest lifelong habit necessary for avoiding cognitive decline and improving physical health. References: https://www.consumerreports.org/exercise-fitness/benefits-of-walking Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

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0:00.0

Welcome. I'm your host Greg McEwen and I am here with you on this journey.

0:10.4

Have you ever set a New Year's resolution to get healthier?

0:15.0

It's an annual tradition to sign up for gym memberships and then never to use them.

0:21.0

It's so established that the entire gym business model is based upon people not actually using the service.

0:29.0

After all, it's long been thought that to significantly improve your mental and physical health

0:35.6

takes expensive gym memberships, new-fangled equipment at home, workout trainers, and more. But what if all of this is false? What we know now is that

0:47.4

there is a much simpler and easier alternative. Today I have invited Anna McEwen back to the show to talk about this.

0:56.0

Anna has this uncanny ability to cut through the noise to get to what's really essential.

1:01.8

She does it in conversations in our marriage all the time and

1:05.2

she's doing it right now with her new essential intent for the year as you'll see.

1:10.3

By the end of this episode you will be able to establish the simplest lifelong habit necessary

1:17.0

for avoiding cognitive decline and improving physical health.

1:21.9

Let's begin. So, Well done to all of you who are learning faster, understanding more deeply and

1:49.6

increasing your influence by teaching the ideas from these podcasts to other people within the first

1:56.6

24 to 48 hours of listening to them.

2:00.0

Thank you, really, thank you for doing that.

2:07.0

Anna welcome back to the podcast. Thank you it's good to be here.

2:09.0

This last week you read a quote to me that really hit both of us hard and I shared it on social media and I just

2:18.9

want to read one of the comments to the quote before we even get to it.

2:22.6

Okay.

2:23.1

Juliet Potter, there are no words to adequately capture just how true this statement is.

2:29.9

It's the reason everything has shifted now post the pandemic it's the reason employees

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