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Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
While other people are living a life of stress and chaos, you will be living a life of impact and fulfilment.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Only by going through the work of identifying extreme criteria were they able to get rid of the 70 and 80 per cents that were draining their time and resources and start focusing on the most interesting work that best distinguished them in the marketplace.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
As a quote attributed to Victor Hugo, the French dramatist and nov. elist, puts it, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." "Less but better" is a principle whose time has come.
Everything changes when we give ourselves permission to be more selective in what we choose to do. At once, we hold the key
... See moreThe way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined,
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
mastery takes focused and deliberate effort,
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
why is it so hard in the moment to dare to choose what is essential over what is non-essential? One simple answer is we are unclear about what is essential. When this happens we become defenceless.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
learning how to do less but better so you can achieve the highest possible return on every precious moment of your life.