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Greg McKeown

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
465 total appearances

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

Who would you select to follow? Who are the people now that you think are going to give you the most relevant insight for your life today? I think that that idea of starting from zero is a better mindset switch than... Let's look at the whole list and remove one or two people. It's like, start the other way around. Go to zero and see what might be relevant.

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

Who would you select to follow? Who are the people now that you think are going to give you the most relevant insight for your life today? I think that that idea of starting from zero is a better mindset switch than... Let's look at the whole list and remove one or two people. It's like, start the other way around. Go to zero and see what might be relevant.

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

Who would you select to follow? Who are the people now that you think are going to give you the most relevant insight for your life today? I think that that idea of starting from zero is a better mindset switch than... Let's look at the whole list and remove one or two people. It's like, start the other way around. Go to zero and see what might be relevant.

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

See who now is going to be helping you go forward. What have the impact of these voices been on you on the last year? Did they help you? Did they just add more clutter to your life? Are the things you really care about better? I had Brad Smith on my podcast. He's the president of Microsoft. He is one of the only technologists who openly admits to the โ€“ well, he wrote a book about it.

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

See who now is going to be helping you go forward. What have the impact of these voices been on you on the last year? Did they help you? Did they just add more clutter to your life? Are the things you really care about better? I had Brad Smith on my podcast. He's the president of Microsoft. He is one of the only technologists who openly admits to the โ€“ well, he wrote a book about it.

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

See who now is going to be helping you go forward. What have the impact of these voices been on you on the last year? Did they help you? Did they just add more clutter to your life? Are the things you really care about better? I had Brad Smith on my podcast. He's the president of Microsoft. He is one of the only technologists who openly admits to the โ€“ well, he wrote a book about it.

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

It's called Tools and Weapons. And just the admission that all technology can be both, all of it, I've worked in Silicon Valley for 15 years now. It is so rare that anyone admits that, especially if they're being paid not to admit it. So you're just always seeing only the upsides.

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

It's called Tools and Weapons. And just the admission that all technology can be both, all of it, I've worked in Silicon Valley for 15 years now. It is so rare that anyone admits that, especially if they're being paid not to admit it. So you're just always seeing only the upsides.

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

It's called Tools and Weapons. And just the admission that all technology can be both, all of it, I've worked in Silicon Valley for 15 years now. It is so rare that anyone admits that, especially if they're being paid not to admit it. So you're just always seeing only the upsides.

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

Anyway, one of the things that he has said about this, he said, for 100 years, all of the technology that we have has made it easier to connect with people who live far from us at the cost of the people who live closest to us.

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

Anyway, one of the things that he has said about this, he said, for 100 years, all of the technology that we have has made it easier to connect with people who live far from us at the cost of the people who live closest to us.

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

Anyway, one of the things that he has said about this, he said, for 100 years, all of the technology that we have has made it easier to connect with people who live far from us at the cost of the people who live closest to us.

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

And so you can take that and turn it into a sort of algorithm for life because you can say, oh, right, they only make money if I'm not spending time listening to my wife or my daughter or my son. That's the only time any technologist is making money is if I am not doing that communications work, that face-to-face work.

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

And so you can take that and turn it into a sort of algorithm for life because you can say, oh, right, they only make money if I'm not spending time listening to my wife or my daughter or my son. That's the only time any technologist is making money is if I am not doing that communications work, that face-to-face work.

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

And so you can take that and turn it into a sort of algorithm for life because you can say, oh, right, they only make money if I'm not spending time listening to my wife or my daughter or my son. That's the only time any technologist is making money is if I am not doing that communications work, that face-to-face work.

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

And as soon as you see that, you're like, oh, well, that makes everything for, well, he's saying a hundred years, but let's just say the last 10 years, that makes the last 10 years make a lot of sense. What's happened to the โ€“ deep friendships have gone down in every single category, male, female, and all age points.

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

And as soon as you see that, you're like, oh, well, that makes everything for, well, he's saying a hundred years, but let's just say the last 10 years, that makes the last 10 years make a lot of sense. What's happened to the โ€“ deep friendships have gone down in every single category, male, female, and all age points.

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

And as soon as you see that, you're like, oh, well, that makes everything for, well, he's saying a hundred years, but let's just say the last 10 years, that makes the last 10 years make a lot of sense. What's happened to the โ€“ deep friendships have gone down in every single category, male, female, and all age points.

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

But over the last 10 years, the biggest drop-off has been in men, I think sort of age 30 plus. Now, that doesn't mean that they're worse than anybody else, but the drop-off has been higher over that period of time. It's like, well, why is that happening? Well, because simultaneously technology, gaming, social media has had its heyday, uncontrolled growth. So you're making a trade-off.

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

But over the last 10 years, the biggest drop-off has been in men, I think sort of age 30 plus. Now, that doesn't mean that they're worse than anybody else, but the drop-off has been higher over that period of time. It's like, well, why is that happening? Well, because simultaneously technology, gaming, social media has had its heyday, uncontrolled growth. So you're making a trade-off.