Greg McKeown: ...that people who do extraordinary things are just ordinary people

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Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We’re very excited to welcome back our guest on this episode, bestselling author Greg McKeown. Greg is a highly respected leadership and business strategist and author of the New York Times bestseller, "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less".

That book explored how we can do less, but do better in every area of our lives by embracing the practice of “essentialism”. Greg’s newest book is another New York Times bestseller. It’s called, "Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most". His website is https://gregmckeown.com/about/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.0	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	And we are very, very excited to welcome back our guest on this episode, bestselling
0:20.4	author Greg McEwen. Greg is a highly
0:23.7	respected leadership and business strategist, and he's the author of the New York Times bestseller
0:28.6	Essentialism, The Discipline Pursuit of Less. Now, that book explored how we can do less,
0:34.9	but do better in every area of our lives by embracing the practice of
0:39.2	essentialism. Greg's newest book is another New York Times bestseller. It's called Effortless.
0:45.9	Make it easier to do what matters most. Greg, thank you so very much for joining us again.
0:51.0	It's so great to be with you again. Thank you for having me.
0:53.7	Now, tell us what
0:55.4	sparked this latest book, effortless. Well, essentialism sparked this latest book because it
1:04.7	changed everything for me. It was the most extraordinary adventure. It's been, it's opened up
1:09.6	opportunities the world over. But with that
1:13.1	came challenges among which were just were just feeling myself a bit stretched too thin,
1:22.9	despite being more selective, despite being more selective than I'd ever been. And then in addition to being
1:30.1	the father of essentialism, I was now father of four children, an increase of responsibilities. And in
1:36.1	addition to that, had a family emergency where one of my daughters went from the picture of health
1:41.5	into what turned out to be a neurological disease that
1:47.0	discombobulated her life and ours and I just found myself going okay what happens if
1:55.6	you have too many absolutely essential things to do what happens if you have to use the
2:00.7	metaphor too many big rocks,
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