The Importance of Engaging With the World in the Most Optimal Way

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"I've kind of seen if it's got to have been to the mountain, you know, and I've seen it," he says. "What matters most to me is that I'm engaged with the world in the most optimal way" The Stanford Business School dean will be 75 years old at the end of December.

David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, and Greg discuss the practical ways and key specifics to immediately begin the journey of cutting out what is non-essential, both personally and professionally. They go back and forth on the deeper and visionary elements of why it’s beneficial to focus on doing what matters most.

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