Greg McKeown

Let me connect the dots.

If you want, you put this at the beginning, but for 10 years, I have been asking the question, what is the primary bottleneck to living out essentialism or effortless

ideas in practice in the world of relationships, teams, organizations.

What's the primary bottleneck?

The answer to my surprise is that it isn't talent.

It's not strategy.

It's not execution.

The primary bottleneck is like confident misunderstanding.

We are wrong.

We think we're right.

And we act upon that.

And that's it.

That's it.

There's a Tapper game that was invented, you may be familiar with it, given that you know the Heath's work, but it's a 1990 dissertation written by a PhD student at Stanford University.

And it wasn't the main thing even that she wrote about, but the first experiment that she ran was a game where two people, two dyads, she had 40 in total, 40 people, and they had the experiment three times.

And the experiment was,

Person one would tap a song to person two, and person two had to guess the song with no words, no music, no humming, no singing, just tapping.

But before she did that, she asked the question, well, what's your confidence level as a tapper?

How confident are you the listener will get it?

And on average, they said 50% across the 120 experiments.