How much time, money, and energy do you waste solving the wrong problems? That's a question posed by my guest today. This is part one of a two-part interview with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg. I became aware of his work after reading an article that he wrote in Harvard Business Review. By the end of this episode, you'll be able to reframe problems in order to reveal unexpected solutions.Learn more from Thomas here: https://wedellsblog.com/Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

In my book Effortless, I asked an important question. What could happen in your life if the easy but pointless things became harder and the essential things became easier? This is episode three of four about my adventures at the University of Cambridge. At the end of this episode, you'll be able to replace one bad habit with a good one by making the bad one harder and the good one easier.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

Today is part two with Professor Simon Baron-Cohen. In this episode, we go deeper into the challenges, but also the opportunities of being neurodiverse. Have you have ever struggled with traditional schooling? Have you ever felt that your mind works differently compared to the people around you? If you work with people who would fit that description or live with people who seem to be somehow on the spectrum, this episode can be exceptionally valuable. By the end of this episode, you will discover how these differences, even though they may have kept you back until this point, can be the exact key you need to become unstoppable.Autism Spectrum Quotient: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/tests/autism-spectrum-quotient-aq-adult/Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

Have you ever felt like you were too busy living to think about life? By the end of this episode, you will be able to create space for continually deep and uninterrupted concentration. This is number two of four solo episodes about my experience at the University of Cambridge.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

Have you ever felt that you were neurodiverse in some way? Did you ever struggle with the traditional school system? Did you or someone you know take away from school the worst of all possible learnings, that you or they were unintelligent? Well, today I have invited Professor Simon Barron-Cohen, the author of The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention, to be on the show. This is part one of two interviews in which Simon takes from his 40 years of research at the University of Cambridge in order to help people who are neurodiverse, particularly people on the autistic spectrum, to be able to operate at their very best, and for the rest of us to be able to figure out how to work with them so that we can draw the best from them. By the end of this interview, you will better understand how to utilize your neurodiversity and the people that you live and work with.Learn more about Sir Barron-Cohen here: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/staff/simon-baron-cohen/Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

I've become aware recently that I haven't really shared very much with you about my experience and adventure here at the University of Cambridge, and for the next four solo episodes I'm going to try and put that right. Have you ever found yourself in a place that made it easier for you to detect your mission in life? By the end of this episode, you will feel inspired, I hope, to seek out places that increase the probability of you detecting, understanding and hearing that mission that is so often hidden below the surface.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

Have you ever felt you had more life experience and talent than your job requires or even allows you to use? Today I've invited Soren Kaplan to the show to talk about how you can better tap into that experience yourself, and also in the people around you. I've long believed that what we know about other people is less valuable than what we don't know. That there's an enormous amount of potential under the surface. What's not on someone's resume, what's not in their current job title, and our ability to mine that experience in ourselves and in other people is, Kaplan believes, a predictor of our success. First we had IQ, then we had emotional intelligence, or EQ. This is XQ, Experiential Intelligence.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.comLearn more about Soren here: https://www.sorenkaplan.com/bio/

How are you doing at applying essentialism to your leadership responsibilities? By the end of this episode, you will have specific things you can do right now to be more attentive, more efficient, and more essentialist in your leadership.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

What is happening to the psychological safety of people at work? Is it going up? Is it going down? What is the primary threat to it today, and is it the same as what we had 20 years ago? Well, to discuss this and other questions I've invited back Dr. Amy Edmondson. She's a celebrated Harvard professor, one of the best listeners that I have ever interviewed. She's present, she's real, and by the end of this episode, you are going to be more empowered to be able to create psychological safety in a world that sometimes seems to be attacking it.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

Welcome to the Greg McKeown podcast. Greg is in Monk Mode this week. Today's episode is a replay of one of his most popular episodes, Eliminate the Nonessentials. Thanks for listening.Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mwLearn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com