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#719: Walk & Talk with Greg McKeown — How to Find Your Purpose and Master Essentialism in 2024

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Embrace Self-Transcendence over Self-Actualization

Focusing on self-transcendence over self-actualization is crucial for those on the road less traveled. Operating in a top-down manner, looking towards something greater than oneself, is key to setting meaningful priorities. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, as commonly understood, is outdated as before his death, he updated it to emphasize self-transcendence as the ultimate aspiration, yet this crucial amendment has been widely overlooked.

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