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72. What's Essential: Dorie Clark on How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

The Greg McKeown Podcast

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Is There a Trade Off?

When i say yes to something, it is the strangest mental trick that i think i'm just weighing up whether this thing is good. That's like the thought process. And then if you extend it a bit and you say, well, there's trade offs, where people's heads seem to go: Well, if i say to one thing, then i can see i'm saying no to something else. There is a trade off, right? Like that seems fair. But that isn't it at all. If you say yes to one things, you're saying no to everything else. It's not you're not saying no to ten things, or a hundred things, or

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