#355: Greg McKeown — How to Master Essentialism
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will."— Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown (@GregoryMcKeown) is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and the founder of McKeown, Inc, a company with a mission to teach Essentialism to millions of people around the world. Their clients include Adobe, Apple, Airbnb, Cisco, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!, among others.
McKeown is an accomplished public speaker and has spoken to hundreds of audiences around the world, and in 2012, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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| 0:00.0 | I think this is how the two I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. |
| 0:06.3 | Can I also you pass some questions? |
| 0:08.3 | Now I just see the notebook coming. |
| 0:10.6 | What's like in the album? |
| 0:12.1 | I'm a cyber nanny organism living tissue over metal and post-cali. |
| 0:15.8 | Leading in Paris show. |
| 0:24.1 | This episode is brought to you by Peloton, which I've been using probably for about a year now. |
| 0:28.1 | Peloton is a cutting edge indoor cycling bike that brings live studio classes right into your home. |
| 0:33.4 | You can also do on-demand, which is what I do. We'll come back to that. |
| 0:36.1 | So you don't have to worry about fitting classes into a busy schedule or making it to a studio or gym with a hectic or unpredictable commute. |
| 0:43.6 | I, for instance, have a Peloton bike right in my master bedroom at home. |
| 0:47.9 | And it's one of the first things I do many mornings. |
| 0:50.9 | I wake up, I meditate for a bit, then I knock out a short 20 minute ride. |
| 0:54.8 | In my undies, hard to do that at the gym, take a shower and I'm in higher gear for the rest of the day. |
| 0:59.9 | It's really convenient and has become something that I look forward to. |
| 1:03.4 | So you have a lot of options. |
| 1:04.7 | For one, if you like, you can ride live with thousands of other riders across the country on an interactive leaderboard to keep you motivated. |
| 1:11.8 | There are also up to 14 new classes added every day with more than 8,000 classes on-demand. |
| 1:17.7 | And you can pick based on length, 45 minutes, 20 minutes, whatever. |
| 1:21.3 | Music, hip hop, rock and roll, or say low impact versus high intensity or interval. |
| 1:26.5 | You can pick the class structure and style that works for you. |
| 1:29.3 | And in my case, I quite like Matt Wilpers and I tend to do on-demand and listen to a lot of and watch many of the same classes over and over. |
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