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

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The Most Insidious Way That You Post Talk Rationalize Doing Too Much

The challenge of the disciplined pursuit of less is something i want to get into in a second. The most insidious way that you am rationalize doing too much is by hedging your risk, he says. And also, the other false assumption in that is the idea that all opportunities are randomly like successes. So instead of thinking it's all random, you take the time to explore and figure out what you really can make a great contribution - and then go big in it.

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