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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

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

And so I think that if you put sort of all of those together, like maybe give you one more rule, I think it's like technology offered a set time per day.

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

And so I think that if you put sort of all of those together, like maybe give you one more rule, I think it's like technology offered a set time per day.

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

And so I think that if you put sort of all of those together, like maybe give you one more rule, I think it's like technology offered a set time per day.

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

I'm not always great at that, to be honest, but we went through a period over this summer when I really was doing it and immediately the quality of my life went up immediately because what happened is it was like, okay, we're going to, you know, let's get around and talk and we'll just laugh and maybe we'll go swim and we'll swim together and then we'll just make memories together.

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

I'm not always great at that, to be honest, but we went through a period over this summer when I really was doing it and immediately the quality of my life went up immediately because what happened is it was like, okay, we're going to, you know, let's get around and talk and we'll just laugh and maybe we'll go swim and we'll swim together and then we'll just make memories together.

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

I'm not always great at that, to be honest, but we went through a period over this summer when I really was doing it and immediately the quality of my life went up immediately because what happened is it was like, okay, we're going to, you know, let's get around and talk and we'll just laugh and maybe we'll go swim and we'll swim together and then we'll just make memories together.

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

And it was the quality of life was immediately improved. And it's because we aren't properly aware of this trade-off that technology companies have made effortless for us. Whatever that device is in our pockets, it's not a phone, right? That's not what it is. Jordan Peterson talks about that. Whatever it is, it's not a phone. So I did some thinking after that. Well, what is it?

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

And it was the quality of life was immediately improved. And it's because we aren't properly aware of this trade-off that technology companies have made effortless for us. Whatever that device is in our pockets, it's not a phone, right? That's not what it is. Jordan Peterson talks about that. Whatever it is, it's not a phone. So I did some thinking after that. Well, what is it?

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

And it was the quality of life was immediately improved. And it's because we aren't properly aware of this trade-off that technology companies have made effortless for us. Whatever that device is in our pockets, it's not a phone, right? That's not what it is. Jordan Peterson talks about that. Whatever it is, it's not a phone. So I did some thinking after that. Well, what is it?

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

And I think about all my experience in Silicon Valley, and I'm like, oh, right, okay. It's a $3 trillion military-grade disorientation machine that makes certain people a lot of money at the cost of connection between humans that live together and are close together. That's what it is. I'm not saying it's only that or all the time that. That's what I think it is right now.

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

And I think about all my experience in Silicon Valley, and I'm like, oh, right, okay. It's a $3 trillion military-grade disorientation machine that makes certain people a lot of money at the cost of connection between humans that live together and are close together. That's what it is. I'm not saying it's only that or all the time that. That's what I think it is right now.

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

And I think about all my experience in Silicon Valley, and I'm like, oh, right, okay. It's a $3 trillion military-grade disorientation machine that makes certain people a lot of money at the cost of connection between humans that live together and are close together. That's what it is. I'm not saying it's only that or all the time that. That's what I think it is right now.

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

Look, Essentialism 10 year anniversary. That's updated. Of course, the Essentialism planner. If people, depending when this airs, if they go to essentialism.com, there's a whole set of additional tools and, you know, tools that couldn't make it into the planner that people can get and so on. Totally free and a really high quality course.

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

Look, Essentialism 10 year anniversary. That's updated. Of course, the Essentialism planner. If people, depending when this airs, if they go to essentialism.com, there's a whole set of additional tools and, you know, tools that couldn't make it into the planner that people can get and so on. Totally free and a really high quality course.

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

Look, Essentialism 10 year anniversary. That's updated. Of course, the Essentialism planner. If people, depending when this airs, if they go to essentialism.com, there's a whole set of additional tools and, you know, tools that couldn't make it into the planner that people can get and so on. Totally free and a really high quality course.

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

If you go to gregmckeown.com, in 10 seconds, you can sign up. It's called Less But Better. And it takes the best of essentialism and effortless into these 30-day course. There's 10 classes spread out over that time. And, uh, and it's just, where do we begin? You know, here we are, we've talked about so many things. It's totally overwhelming. Uh, but where do you begin?

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

If you go to gregmckeown.com, in 10 seconds, you can sign up. It's called Less But Better. And it takes the best of essentialism and effortless into these 30-day course. There's 10 classes spread out over that time. And, uh, and it's just, where do we begin? You know, here we are, we've talked about so many things. It's totally overwhelming. Uh, but where do you begin?

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

If you go to gregmckeown.com, in 10 seconds, you can sign up. It's called Less But Better. And it takes the best of essentialism and effortless into these 30-day course. There's 10 classes spread out over that time. And, uh, and it's just, where do we begin? You know, here we are, we've talked about so many things. It's totally overwhelming. Uh, but where do you begin?

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

Start with this less, but better course. I think those are three things to go with.