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Greg McKeown's mental models

2 claims Greg McKeown made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Less, but better, Trade-offs. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Trade-offs

Every choice gives something up, so name the cost; and check, because some trade-offs everyone assumes are not real.

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People have to come back to the reality of trade-offs

  1. Greg McKeown British business writer and speaker (born 1977) I think we have to come back to the reality of trade-offs. Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview)npr.org · 26 Jul 2014All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsI think we have to come back to the reality of trade-offs.

    ↗Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview)npr.org

    26 Jul 2014

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Less, but better

Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.

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Essentialism means rejecting the idea that if we can fit it all in, we can have it all

  1. Greg McKeown British business writer and speaker (born 1977) I think that in the bigger picture, essentialism is about fighting this nonsense that we have been sold - that if we can fit it all in, then we can have it all. Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview)npr.org · 26 Jul 2014All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsI think that in the bigger picture, essentialism is about fighting this nonsense that we have been sold - that if we can fit it all in, then we can have it all.

    ↗Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview)npr.org

    26 Jul 2014