Greg McKeown on Effortlessness and Essentialism

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Mark Divine

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Greg McKeown is famous for simplifying his life and calling on others to do the same in his book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. His newest book is called Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most. He is also the host of the podcast "What's Essential." Greg and Mark talk today about his journey and learning that the best choice doesn't always have to be the hardest. Hear how: Training your mind to ask "How can I make this effortless?" brings results like never before It's best to "Yield to Win"- it's not always about going the harder way Defining "What does done look like?" already simplifies the next step Listen to this episode and hear how going effortless brings you exactly where you need to be.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is Mark Divine, your host of the Unbeatable Mind Podcast.
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0:39.3	it.
0:40.3	Now, I'm super stoked to talk to Greg McEwan today.
0:44.8	Greg and I met, gosh, four or five years ago, when his outstanding book, Essentialism
0:52.2	came out, Essentialism, Discipline, Pursuit of Less, Fantastic Read, we may get into
0:59.3	a little bit of that today, but that's not the focus of our podcast today.
1:04.5	Greg has done it again.
1:05.9	I just read his new book last night called Effortless, Make It Easier To Do What Matters Most.
1:12.5	And this is going to be extremely valuable and interesting conversation for us because,
1:17.3	you know, here's the point, once you figure out what you're supposed to be doing and then
1:21.2	we charge ahead and try to do it using our old methods and we end up hitting a wall and
1:25.9	we find burnout and we find things aren't working.
1:28.6	So even though you've got the y-down, you don't have the what and that's what Effortless
1:32.3	seeks to solve.
1:33.9	Super stoked.
1:34.9	So Greg is a, he's a top podcaster and his podcast is called What's Essentials.
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