It is not enough to be efficient, but to be efficient at the right things (07:21) Some of the main points (TVF Timestamps): In it I explore key ideas and insights with an aim to making them real and practical tools for helping you do more by doing less. It's to make essential tasks effortless, repeatedly.This episode is part 1 of 2 episodes of a deep dive into select ideas and insights from Greg McKeown's book-Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters. The author does state the goal with sufficient repetition. There's no conclusion unless you state that the goal itself can serve as the conclusion. That's the reward, because THERE IS NO CONCLUSION. This keeps you on your toes, engaging your spider sense problem-solving skills while you anticipate where the author is going. You'll be expecting a definite conclusion based on tone. These business self-help authors frequently make this noise without demonstrating actual skills to do it other than the fact of their building their own personal brands. Well, isn't that easy to say? The author didn't do the difficult thing which is to explain how an individual can distinguish between the choices that are realistically within their reach. Do the sort of things that pay off over and over, high-leverage things that pay a kind of dividend. You're advised in the most demanding way to go effortless by leveraging what you spend your time doing. I don't think he means for us to surf the internet for a half hour every time we knock out a task we don't like doing. I guess it works if what you like is easy to pair, if you're able to go back and forth between what you want to do and what you don't want to do. The author suggests pairing a difficult task with a reward, allowing yourself something you like just after you've done something you don't like. The analogy doesn't apply to what you procrastinate, does it? Here's one that may or may not be a missed shot. Likely, your difficult tasks can't be unlocked by similar repetitive practice. However, consider the fact that basketball's elite shooters make 1,500 shots a week. You need to be in the flow like that with your difficult tasks - tune out the noise, go effortless and then swish.
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The author draws a critical analogy to how a top professional basketball player makes free throws. Here's an example of what I consider a mistake. The deeper I got, the more I expected him to resolve suspense by touting a new technology or meditation. Narration is driving as if toward a singular conclusion you can't afford to miss. See if you spot the mistakes, yet approach with an open mind and get rewarded. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. Make relationships easier to maintain and manage.
Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat”, we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough.īut lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. Everything is so much harder than it used to be?Īs high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work.You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals?.You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy?.You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout?."At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our ever-growing list of responsibilities have come to feel like much too much to handle, Effortless couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary." (Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play ) Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human ) "In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential." (Daniel H. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals.
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