Greg McKeown
British business writer and speaker (born 1977); author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters; co-author with Liz Wiseman of Multipliers.
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Essentialism means rejecting the idea that if we can fit it all in, we can have it all
I think that in the bigger picture, essentialism is about fighting this nonsense that we have been sold - that if we can fit it all in, then we can have it all.
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Essentialism means rejecting the idea that if we can fit it all in, we can have it all
I think that in the bigger picture, essentialism is about fighting this nonsense that we have been sold - that if we can fit it all in, then we can have it all.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
Society is in a busyness bubble near a tipping point, and it will eventually burst
What I think is that society at large is in a busyness bubble now, and we're almost at a tipping point. And at some point, it will burst as well and we'll think we were just crazy to get caught up in all of this euphoria.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
People have to come back to the reality of trade-offs
I think we have to come back to the reality of trade-offs.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
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People who give up the right to negotiate nonessentials lose a lot of power
And so they've given up the right to negotiate nonessentials. And as soon as you give up that right, then you lose a lot of power.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
Being tricked by the trivial is a human dynamic of social pressure, not a time-management problem
It's not about time management. It's much more complex than that. It's a human dynamic. This is about social pressure.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
For at least the last ten years the problem has been opinion overload rather than information overload
But for at least the last 10 years, it's not been information overload that's the problem - it's opinion overload.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
Instead of reaching for the phone first thing, spend 20 minutes journaling, reading or meditating to anchor on what matters
One other thing that I suggest that people do is, first thing in the morning, instead of reaching for your phone, you take 20 minutes and write a journal - ask the hard questions, maybe read wisdom literature, maybe meditate.
Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) Said 26 Jul 2014
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