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

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.5	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.5	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.5	If you've ever felt overworked, overcommitted, and overloaded. This episode is for you.
0:22.0	We're going to explore how we can do less but do better in every area of our lives by
0:29.0	embracing the practice of essentialism.
0:32.1	Our guest is leadership and business strategist Greg McEwen, author of The New York Times bestseller, Essentialism,
0:39.7	The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
0:42.1	Greg, thank you so, so much for joining us today.
0:44.6	It's such an honor to talk to you.
0:46.5	It's my pleasure to be with you.
0:47.9	Thank you.
0:48.7	So let's go to the basics for people who aren't familiar with you.
0:53.1	What is essentialism and how can we actually be
0:57.2	disciplined in pursuing less? It's such a foreign idea. Well, essentialism is an antidote to a
1:03.9	problem and the problem is the undisciplined pursuit of more where we're pooled in a million
1:08.6	different directions. We feel stretched too thin at work or at home.
1:12.3	We feel busy but not productive.
1:14.6	We feel like our day is being hijacked by other people's agenda for us.
1:20.7	Essentialism is the answer to that challenge, that problem.
1:23.2	If people are saying, yes, that's me, then essentialism is the way out.
1:28.2	And it really has three parts to it.
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