Greg McKeown

You never want to be above your average in the entire race. Because every time you think you're, oh, look, I'm making all this progress. See, look at me. I'm passing people. This is what I need. It's like, no, what you're doing is making yourself slower later. You're drawing from a tank. What's that? Yeah, you're drawing from the tank. Right, exactly.

And so this idea of finding what is your maximum and going back a little ways, like the 85% rule. Go 85% and you'll find you can go further and faster and for longer.

And so this idea of finding what is your maximum and going back a little ways, like the 85% rule. Go 85% and you'll find you can go further and faster and for longer.

And so this idea of finding what is your maximum and going back a little ways, like the 85% rule. Go 85% and you'll find you can go further and faster and for longer.

Yeah, I mean, I think... I mean, one way to think about what you just said is, I call it the onion of human systems. And that's, I mean, it's consistent with something we talked about before, but in all, in any human system, right? So a person is a human system, right? That's one way to think about it. A relationship is a human system. It's all of the interaction and it's highly complex.

Yeah, I mean, I think... I mean, one way to think about what you just said is, I call it the onion of human systems. And that's, I mean, it's consistent with something we talked about before, but in all, in any human system, right? So a person is a human system, right? That's one way to think about it. A relationship is a human system. It's all of the interaction and it's highly complex.

Yeah, I mean, I think... I mean, one way to think about what you just said is, I call it the onion of human systems. And that's, I mean, it's consistent with something we talked about before, but in all, in any human system, right? So a person is a human system, right? That's one way to think about it. A relationship is a human system. It's all of the interaction and it's highly complex.

I mean, take a single person. and try to understand everything that's in their mind and how it's all connected. That is unbelievably complex. So the complexity, like we live in a ridiculously complex world. And so human systems are ridiculously complex. The problem is,

I mean, take a single person. and try to understand everything that's in their mind and how it's all connected. That is unbelievably complex. So the complexity, like we live in a ridiculously complex world. And so human systems are ridiculously complex. The problem is,

I mean, take a single person. and try to understand everything that's in their mind and how it's all connected. That is unbelievably complex. So the complexity, like we live in a ridiculously complex world. And so human systems are ridiculously complex. The problem is,

If we operate in a way that we only ever at the outer edges of the onion, then we're dealing with the relatively safe and relatively trivial. And so, I mean, I think what you're describing in your journey this last year is I've been moving closer to the center in my own life.

If we operate in a way that we only ever at the outer edges of the onion, then we're dealing with the relatively safe and relatively trivial. And so, I mean, I think what you're describing in your journey this last year is I've been moving closer to the center in my own life.

If we operate in a way that we only ever at the outer edges of the onion, then we're dealing with the relatively safe and relatively trivial. And so, I mean, I think what you're describing in your journey this last year is I've been moving closer to the center in my own life.

Circumstances are such that it's happening and some of it is just the success itself and going, okay, well, what does it mean? And if I don't have to work for the same reasons I used to have to work, then why do I do that? And so it raises questions that are closer to the highest level of vulnerability and highest level of impact possible is at the center.

Circumstances are such that it's happening and some of it is just the success itself and going, okay, well, what does it mean? And if I don't have to work for the same reasons I used to have to work, then why do I do that? And so it raises questions that are closer to the highest level of vulnerability and highest level of impact possible is at the center.

Circumstances are such that it's happening and some of it is just the success itself and going, okay, well, what does it mean? And if I don't have to work for the same reasons I used to have to work, then why do I do that? And so it raises questions that are closer to the highest level of vulnerability and highest level of impact possible is at the center.

I sometimes think about this as like the red button at the center. And there's all sorts of protective measures that people employ to avoid going there. And I used to think that was sort of fundamentally pretty much just bad. But I understand it more now because it's like you mess with that thing. You're resetting. You know, that red button is like there can be unbelievable resets.

I sometimes think about this as like the red button at the center. And there's all sorts of protective measures that people employ to avoid going there. And I used to think that was sort of fundamentally pretty much just bad. But I understand it more now because it's like you mess with that thing. You're resetting. You know, that red button is like there can be unbelievable resets.

I sometimes think about this as like the red button at the center. And there's all sorts of protective measures that people employ to avoid going there. And I used to think that was sort of fundamentally pretty much just bad. But I understand it more now because it's like you mess with that thing. You're resetting. You know, that red button is like there can be unbelievable resets.

And so if you reset it stupidly or reactively or something like that, then, yeah, I suppose you risk blowing up your life. But let me just describe what I think is down there, what I've found down there is that at the center of the center, like the holy of holies of our mind and heart and life, It's a meaning frame. Of course, it's not just one, but there are meaning frames.