Essentialism

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Greg McKeown doesn't believe in “doing it all.” Instead, he lives by the mantra “less is more.” His book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, is about pursuing the most important things in life… and trimming the rest. Hear Greg share lessons from pursuing less — and how you be more successful following the same strategies.

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0:00.0	one of the beautiful things about essentialism, about pursuing those things that absolutely matter most
0:06.0	is that you then just live a life that matters most.
0:08.8	Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:18.0	What up everyone, it's your boy, Serraja, aka Rabbi Can't Lose,
0:22.0	aka Noah Kagan.
0:24.2	I'm going to give you a warning.
0:25.6	This episode will likely change the way you think.
0:28.4	It's really messed with my mind.
0:30.4	We all know essentialism and prioritizing is important. We know that. We got it.
0:35.0	But for some reason we keep doing too many things and most of those things don't matter.
0:39.0	You know that person who's always busy but doesn't seem to get shit done? that's what I wanted to solve in today's episode. So in this conversation I talked
0:48.3	with Greg McCown who is the author of one of my favorite books of all-time
0:52.1	essentialism. In this conversation we talk
0:54.6	about how to figure out what's essential, different strategies and tactics to stop
0:59.3	doing other things that are not important. The difference between it being a king and a kingmaker and
1:05.2	dealing with success when you finally get it. I can't wait for you to enjoy the episode. Have fun.
1:09.4	I just feel. I just feel I just can feel that like we're just on the edge of this this big
1:19.2	breakthrough. What do you mean? The temptation right now would be to write the next book. That's what ought to happen. That's the logic. You know, the first book is doing better now than it and it's ever done. It's it's moving in the right direction. You know you should see it.
1:35.1	A hundred to one author in this genre would, you know, a year or two after the first book is out would be either publishing or working on the next manuscript
1:46.8	the agent's ready for it, the publisher's ready for it and and really there's a part of me that very much wants to do there.
1:54.0	There's a muscle memory that says this is this would be the thing to do but instead I feel this complete pull this gravitational pull
2:08.0	in spiritual desire to go in a different direction and it's been fascinating and it feels right.
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