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#175 - Greg McKeown - Essentialism Explained: How To Focus On What Matters In Life

Modern Wisdom

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Play a Stunny Game, Win a Stubborn Prize

There's a quote from neval ravacant which is, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. To me that means what is the what would be winning the thing you're doing right now? Play a stupid game of texting while you drive, as opposed to waiting until you get to your destination. If you want to take it to a kind of a little bit more vicious degree, pay a stupid game, which would be, have unprotected sex with someone that you don't know after a night out. And so i just think there's many of the prizes that people think are the most important things. I think many goals people set that if they spent a little longer pondering them and

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