Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Essentialism is about rethinking prioritization, what really matters, in figuring out what is essential.

Effortless is a cousin to that, and that's about rethinking

simplification, which is that sometimes we just make getting great results, breaking through

to the next level, harder than it needs to be. So it's not saying, hey, you should never work,

and you should never work hard, and you should never put an you should never work hard and you should never put an effort.

I believe that you're supposed to put an effort. The point is, if you can't work any harder, you've got to find an easier path.

And yet, in a grind culture, sometimes people start to get burned out, and their answer is push even harder.

Rather than think different, think smarter, find an alternative route.

The book structure, the model is to have an effortless state, like three concentric circles,

effortless state, effortless action, and effortless results.

Right.

And that's sort of like three books in one.

Each of them can make your life and the results you get easier to get. You want to first remove all

the complexity in your mind, in your heart that makes life more frustrating than it ought to be.

So simplifying your state, I think, is a huge return on investment. If you can let go of a grudge,

if you can let go of something that you keep on draining you, there's just more of you on offer. And that's not through grinding

effort. That's through just removing burdens. You don't have to be hauling up the mountain at

all. So you're simplifying all of your, you're basically all

of that clutter that's in your mind. So it makes it easier to focus on what matters.

One of the things that I've learned specifically on grudges is that we have to ask an unusual

question about grudges. And that is, what did we hire the grudge to do? Every grudge we hold, we hold for a reason.

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