#880 - Greg McKeown - How To Focus On What Matters Most

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Greg McKeown is an author, public speaker, and leadership consultant Success requires you to focus on what truly matters. But in the modern world there are more distractions than ever before. So how should you best choose what to prioritise, and what are the pitfalls to avoid? Expect to learn how Essentialism has evolved over the past decade, why saying no is so hard and how to get better at saying it, how to counteract your desire for novelty, why it’s so difficult to cut your losses, how to use boundaries in your life, the challenges you'll face as you become more successful and much more.. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to $50 off the RP Hypertrophy App at https://rpstrength.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount & free shipping on Manscaped’s shavers at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM20) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Greg McEwen. He's an author,
0:05.2	public speaker and a leadership consultant. Success requires you to focus on what truly matters,
0:11.4	but in the modern world, there are more distractions than ever before. So how should you
0:16.0	best choose what to prioritize and what are the pitfalls to avoid. Expect to learn how essentialism has evolved
0:22.3	over the past decade, why saying no is so hard and how to get better at saying it, how to
0:27.7	counteract your desire for novelty, why it's so difficult to cut your losses, how to use
0:31.8	boundaries in your life, the challenges you'll face as you become more successful, and much
0:37.4	more. Greg is a legend.
0:40.3	Essentialism was superbly formative for me. If you've downloaded the Modern Wisdom Reading list,
0:45.3	you will know it's in the top five. It's stayed there for as long as I can remember.
0:49.9	It's a wonderful redress to a lot of the problems that those of us that like to try and achieve
0:55.1	things face, which is namely putting more on our plate than our work capacity can handle.
1:00.8	And it's just so great. And it's become more useful over the last 10 years since he released it.
1:06.1	So yeah, so much to take away from this one. I've been lifting weights for probably about 15 years now,
1:11.8	and this year has been the most progress I've made
1:15.4	probably since my noob gains,
1:17.4	and almost all of that can be laid at the feet of Dr. Mike Isritel
1:21.6	and his team at RP Strength.
1:23.4	The RP hypertrophy app takes all of the guesswork
1:26.3	out of crafting an ideal lifting routine.
1:28.6	It's literally spoon-fed me a step-by-step plan for every workout, including the sets,
1:33.5	the reps, the weights to use. It automatically adjusts every single week based on progress.
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