Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-12-21
Books mentioned on How To Focus On What Matters Most - Greg McKeown - #880
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.
Greg McKeown discussed Essentialism by Greg McKeown. Chris Williamson discussed Tools And Weapons by Brad Smith and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Essentialism
Essentialism by Greg McKeown is a self-improvement guide that advocates for focusing on the vital few things instead of getting overwhelmed by the trivial many.
Discussed“so you know there are these you know so so Steve Harvey gets a copy of it it's his favorite book and so we end up doing a bunch of interesting things together”
Where to get it
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Tools And Weapons
Discussed“he's the president of Microsoft he is one of the only technologists who openly admits to the the well he wrote a book about it it's called tools uh and weapons”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Essentialism
“One thing that I find interesting about this is the concept of essentialism itself, which includes an idea known as the paradox of success.”
Plugged Essentialism
“However, assuming that the individuals who invest in personal development and read books like yours have a goal of achieving a certain level of success, it’s essential to future-proof yourself.”
Plugged Essentialism
“Some of these moments are a bit strange, but humbling, too, because I can feel that every year, essentialism connects with more people than the year before.”
Plugged Essentialism
“In the last ten years since I published essentialism, the lead characteristic of the information age was distraction, but the lead characteristic of this new era is disorientation.”
Plugged Effortless
“and that was one of the reasons that I wrote the book effortless was as an antidote to that you can think about it like an insecure overachievers guide to healthy productivity”
Plugged Essentialism
“um look essentialism 10 year anniversary that's uh that's updated of course the essentialism planner”