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Greg McKeown

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Modern Wisdom
#880 - Greg McKeown - How To Focus On What Matters Most

And when she died, his young version of making sense of this world he's in is the only things that matter in life are my family and my faith. Now, that makes perfect sense as a 10-year-old or something trying to make sense of his world. And it's not that that's totally false. But it's a set of truth mapped like those magnets with something not true. He doesn't even know it's there.

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

And when she died, his young version of making sense of this world he's in is the only things that matter in life are my family and my faith. Now, that makes perfect sense as a 10-year-old or something trying to make sense of his world. And it's not that that's totally false. But it's a set of truth mapped like those magnets with something not true. He doesn't even know it's there.

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

And when she died, his young version of making sense of this world he's in is the only things that matter in life are my family and my faith. Now, that makes perfect sense as a 10-year-old or something trying to make sense of his world. And it's not that that's totally false. But it's a set of truth mapped like those magnets with something not true. He doesn't even know it's there.

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

But here he is as a PhD student at the top university struggling. As soon as he worked it out, we were able to zoom in and begin a process of starting to look at it, untangle it, gently separate it, and enable him to operate at a completely different level. And...

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

But here he is as a PhD student at the top university struggling. As soon as he worked it out, we were able to zoom in and begin a process of starting to look at it, untangle it, gently separate it, and enable him to operate at a completely different level. And...

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

But here he is as a PhD student at the top university struggling. As soon as he worked it out, we were able to zoom in and begin a process of starting to look at it, untangle it, gently separate it, and enable him to operate at a completely different level. And...

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

That's one illustration, but I have spent the last, I mean, I don't even talk about it in either essentialism or effortless, not really, not at all, but that's really been the story of the last 25 years of my life have been unbelievable moments like that with people one-on-one, sometimes in bigger groups where you are listening in a way that gets to the heart of the matter.

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

That's one illustration, but I have spent the last, I mean, I don't even talk about it in either essentialism or effortless, not really, not at all, but that's really been the story of the last 25 years of my life have been unbelievable moments like that with people one-on-one, sometimes in bigger groups where you are listening in a way that gets to the heart of the matter.

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

That's one illustration, but I have spent the last, I mean, I don't even talk about it in either essentialism or effortless, not really, not at all, but that's really been the story of the last 25 years of my life have been unbelievable moments like that with people one-on-one, sometimes in bigger groups where you are listening in a way that gets to the heart of the matter.

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

these vulnerable but valuable unlocks at the center. This is the process I think you're going through and it will be feeling really messy and really vulnerable partially because the closer you get the higher stakes it is, but also because perhaps there hasn't been like a structured process to try and make sense of this journey. But I think if you think about it more in terms of this onion system,

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

these vulnerable but valuable unlocks at the center. This is the process I think you're going through and it will be feeling really messy and really vulnerable partially because the closer you get the higher stakes it is, but also because perhaps there hasn't been like a structured process to try and make sense of this journey. But I think if you think about it more in terms of this onion system,

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

these vulnerable but valuable unlocks at the center. This is the process I think you're going through and it will be feeling really messy and really vulnerable partially because the closer you get the higher stakes it is, but also because perhaps there hasn't been like a structured process to try and make sense of this journey. But I think if you think about it more in terms of this onion system,

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

It will help you to go, okay, of course, this feels vulnerable. Of course, this is weird. And you know what you're looking for. What are those meaning frames inside, way down, truths matched with untruths that I can start to identify, unlock, and then be able to release a new way of living and operating?

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

It will help you to go, okay, of course, this feels vulnerable. Of course, this is weird. And you know what you're looking for. What are those meaning frames inside, way down, truths matched with untruths that I can start to identify, unlock, and then be able to release a new way of living and operating?

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

It will help you to go, okay, of course, this feels vulnerable. Of course, this is weird. And you know what you're looking for. What are those meaning frames inside, way down, truths matched with untruths that I can start to identify, unlock, and then be able to release a new way of living and operating?

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

Well, let's level set by saying this, that almost everything that has been written and published both in the popular press and in academic circles and certainly online are about our advice for how to become successful. And almost nothing has been written about what to do once you are. Well, that's a problem. Okay, you can say, well, most people are trying to make the journey from zero to one.

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

Well, let's level set by saying this, that almost everything that has been written and published both in the popular press and in academic circles and certainly online are about our advice for how to become successful. And almost nothing has been written about what to do once you are. Well, that's a problem. Okay, you can say, well, most people are trying to make the journey from zero to one.

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

Well, let's level set by saying this, that almost everything that has been written and published both in the popular press and in academic circles and certainly online are about our advice for how to become successful. And almost nothing has been written about what to do once you are. Well, that's a problem. Okay, you can say, well, most people are trying to make the journey from zero to one.

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

So maybe the idea is, well, there's a smaller market for the one to infinity market. But I've spent so much of my life working with people in that category that I feel a lot of sympathy and even compassion. Yeah, I would say compassion better even than sympathy because Because there's a lot of misjudgment, really low quality judgment of people that are successful.

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

So maybe the idea is, well, there's a smaller market for the one to infinity market. But I've spent so much of my life working with people in that category that I feel a lot of sympathy and even compassion. Yeah, I would say compassion better even than sympathy because Because there's a lot of misjudgment, really low quality judgment of people that are successful.