Many people really feel like we’re drowning in invisible complexity. So I needed to hit pause and ask a easy query: What are 1–3 choices that might dramatically simplify my life?
On this episode:
- Chip Conley shares how a near-death expertise onstage modified his life
- Greg McKeown reveals what a stormtrooper costume has to do with all of the goddamn muddle in our lives
- David Allen explains why the to-do record residing in your head prices you greater than you assume.
- Elizabeth Gilbert explains why she treats her inbox like her house, and what she does when uninvited company present up.
- And Oliver Burkeman explains why a lot simplicity recommendation backfires and what has truly labored for him.
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Timestamps
- [00:00:00] Begin.
- [00:01:36] Chip Conley: Turning manic into magic.
- [00:13:00] Greg McKeown: Is {that a} stormtrooper you’re pursuing?
- [00:20:18] David Allen: Agreements you haven’t saved with your self.
- [00:28:35] Elizabeth Gilbert: “Thanks” and “No.”
- [00:36:37] Oliver Burkeman: Simplicity is an perspective, not a method.
Quotations from This Episode
“Information is one thing you accumulate, you add. Knowledge is one thing you distill, you simplify.”
— Chip Conley
“I feel lots of people have a whole lot of stormtroopers of their life.”
— Greg McKeown
“You may solely be ok with what you’re not doing when what you’re not doing.”
— David Allen
“I now deal with my inbox prefer it’s my house as a result of I feel it’s an extension of my house.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“True simplicity, the simplicity that truly virtually helped me in life, shouldn’t be a query of methods; it’s an perspective.”
— Oliver Burkeman
Need to hear extra methods for simplifying your life? Take heed to my conversations with Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck, during which we mentioned why easy is the other of advanced (not a synonym for simple), residing with out subscriptions or dependencies, constructing a home from scratch in New Zealand, getting clear on who your work is for, eliminating grey areas, reclaiming time with private boundaries, following true pleasure as a substitute of dopamine hits, how a near-death expertise sparked a radical dedication, and way more.
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