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
This week I am welcoming Dorie Clark, leadership consultant and author of the book The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world to the What's Essential podcast.
Dorie offers her insight into how we can stop making short-term choices that lead us away from who we want to be and start making long-term choices that give us space to dream, plan, and live.
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What's Essential Podcast
Greg McKeown
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Credits:
- Hosted by Greg McKeown
- Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse
- Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Brent Montgomery, and Ed Simpson
- Co-Produced by Derrial Christon