The author recently completed an 18-month training program on deep listening. She says it's a constant practice, and can help you understand how little we know about the world. The key is not to get stuck or lost in our habitual reactions but to notice when they're happening so that she can shift back into listening.
Greg McKeown is an author, public speaker in leadership, and business strategist. Greg often speaks on how to live and lead as an essentialist. He has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t. His writing has appeared or been covered by The New York Times, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and Harvard Business Review. He is the CEO of McKeown Inc. whose clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Twitter, and Yahoo!.
In this episode, Eric and Greg discuss his book, Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most.
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In This Interview, Greg McKeown and I Discuss How to Make Life Easier and …
- His book, Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters Most
- The power of gratitude – and how it literally cannot be overpracticed
- The practice of saying something you’re grateful for after every time you complain
- What it means to live in the gain vs. live in the gap
- Asking yourself, “what if there’s no other way than this to grow in this life?”
- The many ways we make life harder than it needs to be
- That holding a grudge is a primary way of making life harder than it is
- The power of asking the question: “What did I hire this grudge to do? Is it doing it?”
- The way conditions on forgiveness still trap you overtime
- Using words to create the future relationships I want
- The role and power of Deep Listening
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