Essentialism How to Pursue Less with Greg McKeown - 387
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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 has created the habit of unidentified failure. Very interesting stuff!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to the Shalene Show. Today you're in for a treat. This is an episode |
| 0:06.0 | that appeared a while back on the Shalene Show and I bet you've forgotten about it. Or maybe |
| 0:12.0 | you're a new listener, but it's worth revisiting. Today, my interview is with author Greg McAwan. |
| 0:19.0 | He's the author of Essentialism and today we talk about a really important topic, the pursuit |
| 0:25.0 | of less. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to the Shalene Show. Shalene is a New York Times bestselling author and the founder |
| 0:32.0 | of the Smart Success Academy. Your host has a degree in Justice, Morality and Constitutional |
| 0:38.0 | Democracy. |
| 0:39.0 | He's not even joking. That's really what my degree reads. And as you know, I graduated from Michigan |
| 0:44.0 | State University. I was part of the Honors College at James Madison within Michigan State University. |
| 0:50.0 | And my degree literally reads on my certificate Justice Morality and Constitutional Democracy. |
| 0:57.0 | And I freaking love saying that because I feel like it makes me sound really smart. And truth be told, |
| 1:02.0 | that's why I chose that degree. I'm like, this one right here would make me sound like super smart. |
| 1:09.0 | And I was back then. I was like super smart. I do not know what has happened. I feel like now I have street |
| 1:15.0 | creed. But like back then I had like book smarts. I was studying philosophers like Frederick Nietzsche |
| 1:22.0 | and Plato and James Madison and names I can't even remember and I don't even remember anything that |
| 1:29.0 | I studied. But I love my university. I'm a Spartan girl and I bleed green. And I don't know why I'm telling you |
| 1:36.0 | all that except that I'm trying to sound smart because the gentleman who you're about to meet author |
| 1:41.0 | Greg McEwen is brilliant. The man is a graduate from Stanford University. He went to law school. |
| 1:48.0 | And perhaps more importantly, he is the author of the book Essentialism. Now you've probably been hearing many |
| 1:54.0 | thought leaders talking about this book for months. I've been talking about it because it's so perfectly |
| 2:00.0 | aligned with the message, the movement that I'm trying to create with smart success. And as you'll hear in this |
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