[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]] - People: [[Greg McKeown]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9x6D09AKBU --- ## Summary - Pursuing less means your focused on the most valuable things (essential). You must be practiced & disciplined at this. - Practice the art of saying 'no' gracefully. - Recognize & focus on value. (Re)evaluate often. - Build systems to avoid undisciplined pursuit of more. Focus on the essential. ## Notes - What is it that holds capable driven people from breaking through to the next level? -> Success. But success becomes a catalyst for failure. - When people are focused on a few things, they can be more successful. However, success may encourage them to take on (much) more -> resulting in failure. - The undisciplined pursuit of more. - The [[Disciplined pursuit of less]], for better. 1. Explore critical things to pursue. 2. Eliminate the rest. 3. Build platform for effortless execution. - Doing what is essential becomes default. - We need the space to think. This needs to be routine. - Practice saying no. Get rid of people & commitments that don't mean anything, so you can focus. - [[Say no gracefully, but unapologetically]]. - Focus on the selected few to achieve max. value. - Say no when others say yes, so you can say yes when others say no. - Anything less than the disciplined pursuit of less, will lead to the undisciplined pursuit of more. - Become good at recognizing & focusing on value. ## Original ![[2021-10-24 - Essentialism - The disciplined pursuit of less.jpg]] ## See also - [[Essentialism by Greg McKeown - An infographic]] - [[Atomic habits]]