Disciplined Pursuit of Less | Essentialism with author Greg McKeown - 022
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2014
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this episode Chalene speaks with New York Times best selling author Greg McKeown about how to practice the disciplined pursuit of less and how our culture has taught us to do more and to be more and that in the process this pursuit of undefined success has created great many failures. Greg shares the findings of his 15 year study on the most successful corporations and individuals and how our lack of focus and purpose, coupled with a culture that never allows us the space to think.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times bestselling author and the founder |
| 0:06.1 | of the Smart Success Academy. Your host has a degree in Justice, Morality and Constitutional |
| 0:12.1 | Democracy. He's not even joking. That's really what my degree reads. And as you know, I graduated |
| 0:17.2 | from Michigan State University. I was part of the Honors College at James Madison within Michigan |
| 0:23.1 | State University. And my degree literally reads on my certificate Justice, Morality and Constitutional |
| 0:30.0 | Democracy. And I freaking love saying that because I feel like it makes me sound really smart. |
| 0:34.7 | And truth be told, that's why I chose that degree. I'm like, um, this one right here would make |
| 0:41.2 | me sound like super smart. And I was back then. I was like super smart. I do not know what has |
| 0:46.7 | happened. I feel like now I have street smarts. Like I've got street cred. But like back then, |
| 0:51.6 | I had like book smarts. I was studying philosophers like Frederick Nietzsche and Plato and James |
| 0:58.6 | Madison and names I can't even remember. And I don't even remember anything that I studied. But |
| 1:04.0 | I love my university. I'm a Spartan girl and I bleed green. And I don't know why I'm telling you |
| 1:10.2 | all that except that I'm trying to sound smart because the gentleman who you're about to meet author |
| 1:14.7 | Greg McEwan is brilliant. The man is a graduate from Stanford University. He went to law school. |
| 1:21.3 | And perhaps more importantly, he is the author of the book Essentialism. Now you've probably been |
| 1:26.6 | hearing many thought leaders talking about this book for months. I've been talking about it because |
| 1:32.2 | it's so perfectly aligned with the message, the movement that I'm trying to create with smart |
| 1:37.2 | success. And as you'll hear in this interview, it's something I still struggle with. So it's |
| 1:42.4 | really important for me to not only teach this stuff to keep myself accountable, but to surround |
| 1:47.4 | myself with thought leaders in this area. Greg is brilliant. This is a very thought provoking |
| 1:53.5 | interview and I can't wait for you to hear it. Well, I'm so excited to talk to you today. I am |
| 2:00.8 | such a big fan of your book. I'm a big fan of just the whole idea. I'm so looking forward to it. |
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