Greg McKeown - Clearing Out the Nonessential
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Greg McKeown is a speaker, a bestselling author, and the host of the popular podcast What’s Essential. He has been covered by The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune, Politico, and Inc., has been interviewed on NPR, NBC, Fox, and The Steve Harvey Show, and is among the most popular bloggers for LinkedIn. He is also a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum. McKeown’s New York Times bestselling book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less has sold more than a million copies worldwide. Originally from London, England, he now lives in California with his wife, Anna, and their four children.
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Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome to another episode of the Dring Big Podcast with Bob Goffind |
| 0:13.0 | Friends. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Scott Chible. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm here to set up a conversation between Bob and New York Times bestselling author, Greg |
| 0:20.6 | McEwen, whose first book is sitting here right on my desk. |
| 0:24.2 | It's called Essentialism, the Discipline Pursuit of Less. |
| 0:28.1 | I keep it here because, well, I'm in any Graham 3 and I say yes way more than I say no. |
| 0:34.4 | Because I want to be all things, all people, I want you to be impressed with me and all |
| 0:38.8 | the things I can do and that means I get in over my head and I get involved and committed |
| 0:44.8 | to things that don't matter and I know I'm not the only one. |
| 0:49.8 | As Greg says, most things that we commit to are trivial, they're not important, they're |
| 0:55.2 | not essential. |
| 0:56.8 | And as we look through the Dring Big framework, the third step is what we call it clearing |
| 1:01.1 | the path. |
| 1:02.1 | It's getting the distractions out of the way whatever those distractions are. |
| 1:07.6 | Greg is a new book that just came out called Effortless, making it easy to do what matters |
| 1:12.4 | most. |
| 1:13.4 | I can't wait to read it because I need it and I think you're going to need to listen |
| 1:17.6 | to this conversation between Bob and Greg. |
| 1:20.2 | So buckle up, take notes and get ready to not only clear the path, but to find a path |
| 1:26.0 | that's Effortless. |
| 1:27.2 | Hey, so great to be on with you, Greg and thanks for jumping on the podcast. |
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