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#510: Greg McKeown — The Art of Effortless Results, How to Take the Lighter Path, the Joys of Simplicity, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Are You Putting the Rock Down, or Do You Find an Easier Path?

High achievers are on the edge of exhaustion, but they can't work any harder. Their impulse is to work harder because that's what got them here. And so even as they approach exhaustion, burn out, or even go past it, they still think, well,  that's what i've done before. It's been hard work. I'lv just hard worked my way out of this. But if we had gone down the harder path, the heavier path, we would have nothing left to deal with second time when she relapsed. So that really is the story behind effortless. Is this requirement, this need to discover, is there an easier path and to have

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