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“I think all of us are prisoners to the way our mind currently works, and we’re prisoners until we become observers to it.”
— Greg McKeown

Greg McKeown (@GregoryMcKeown) is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most. He is also a speaker, host of The Greg McKeown Podcast, and founder of The Essentialism Academy, with students from 96 countries. 200,000 people receive his weekly 1-Minute Wednesday newsletter, and he recently released The Essentialism Planner: A 90-Day Guide to Accomplishing More by Doing Less.

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#786: Tactics and Strategies for a 2025 Reboot — Essentialism and Greg McKeown

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Want to hear the last time Greg McKeown was on the podcast? Listen to our walk and talk conversation here where we discussed Greg’s system for effortless execution of daily tasks, poetic mysticism and matchmaking introspection, Maslow’s forgotten pinnacle of self-transcendence, why self-actualization is an insufficient foundation for meaningful relationships, the benefits of treating social media as an option rather than an obligation, blocking time for top priorities, why AI is a good servant but a poor master, and much more.

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

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Connect with Greg McKeown:

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SHOW NOTES

[00:05:12] Handling destabilizing events and personal turmoil.
[00:10:47] Writing as therapy and “screaming onto the page.”
[00:13:35] Using Morning Pages and AI tools for personal reflection.
[00:17:52] Carl Rogers and the power of deep listening.
[00:20:33] Reviewing the core concepts of Essentialism and Effortless.
[00:24:54] Temporal landmarks and the fresh start effect.
[00:29:25] Personal quarterly offsites and the importance of direction over speed.
[00:31:13] The three essential questions for quarterly reviews.
[00:34:16] Making essential tasks effortless — practical examples and strategies.
[00:37:03] The law of inverse prioritization — why important things don’t get done.
[00:38:45] Strategies for making tasks simpler — the microburst concept.
[00:44:37] The courage to be rubbish.
[00:47:09] Pre-mortems and anticipating obstacles.
[00:52:37] Michael Phelps’ preparation and routine.
[01:07:31] The 1-2-3 method and defining what “done” looks like.
[01:15:19] Meaning over productivity, and making vs. managing.
[01:23:14] Radical gratitude and finding meaning in suffering.
[01:36:43] Parting thoughts on deep connection and listening.

MORE GREG MCKEOWN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I think all of us are prisoners to the way our mind currently works, and we’re prisoners until we become observers to it.”
— Greg McKeown

“That process of screaming into the page, of letting it all out, separating ourselves from that discombobulating internal state, is extremely powerful because it helps us to go from prisoner to observer. And then from observer, I think once we start observing, we are better able to become a creator, so I think that’s the shift.”

— Greg McKeown

“Changing the ratio of consumption to creation is one self-evident shift that I think a lot of people would benefit in.”

— Greg McKeown

“Insecure overachievers can endlessly complicate any task to an infinite degree. … If you don’t know what done looks like, you cannot be done.”

— Greg McKeown

“Radical gratitude is expressing thanks for things you’re not thankful for, because that’s what gratitude actually is.”

— Greg McKeown

“Essentialism, in one word, would be ‘focus.’ Effortless, in one word, would be ‘simplification.'”

— Greg McKeown

“Essentialism is figuring out what the right thing is to do and Effortless is to do it in the right way.”

— Greg McKeown

“One of the principles in Effortless is the courage to be rubbish and doing it in a shorter period of time.”

— Greg McKeown

“I think most addictions really are, at the core, to avoid the experience of being alive. And that’s because it’s so painful to be alive.”

— Greg McKeown

“We live in a time where it’s so easy to have what I would describe as counterfeit agility. So you’re moving fast, life feels fast, life is fast, and you’re taking messages, you’re sending messages, and you’re doing things, but actually, they don’t add up to a lot of progress toward what matters.”

— Greg McKeown

“What I have learned is this strange law of inverse prioritization. … The most important thing in our lives at any given time is the least likely thing to get done, which is really strange.”

— Greg McKeown

“Courage is a virtue, but courage always feels terrible. It is an awful feeling. It’s not like you imagine when you see other people being courageous.”

— Greg McKeown

“If you think about the future as only a perfect, best-case scenario, you are setting yourself up for really frustrating, stressful, poor execution.”

— Greg McKeown

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