14 October 2024

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg Mckeown

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg Mckeown

Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload?

Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?

Do you ever feel busy but not productive?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an Essentialist.

In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a Leadership and Strategy agency in Silicon Valley who has run courses at Apple, Google and Facebook, shows you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less. Being an Essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking. It means challenging the core assumption of ‘We can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time'.

By applying more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.

Using the experience and insight of working with the leaders of the world's most innovative companies and organisations, McKeown shows you how to put Essentialism into practice in your own life, so you too can achieve something great.

07 October 2024

The Unstoppable Power Of Reframing Your Experiences - Modern Wisdom with Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. Tony Robbins once famously asked, “How can the worst thing that ever happened to you become the best thing?” This highlights the power of reframing. By changing your perspective on life events—whether they’re objectively true or not—what matters is their usefulness. If a perspective serves you positively, it works, and that’s the real power of perspective. Expect to learn how you can reframe your perspective for the better, what the term ‘Useful Not True’ means, why your thoughts cannot be trusted nor should you believe each one that pops into your head, why people don’t bond over facts but rather perspectives, how to not become discouraged if you are thrown off course, how to make better decisions and make the best choice possible and much more...

00:00:00 Useful But Not True
00:06:41 Why is Reframing Important?
00:13:08 Derek’s Car Accident
00:23:11 We Bond Over Our Perspectives
00:28:29 Is it Right to Sometimes Break the Rules?
00:36:35 Your Own Thoughts Are Untrue
00:47:28 Evaluating Beliefs Fuelled By Emotion
00:55:39 Judge the Content & Not the Box
01:06:05 The Value of Diverse Worldviews
01:17:30 How to Better Reframe Your Experiences
01:32:22 Are These Tools Universally Useful?
01:41:46 Our Desire to Be Perfect Immediately
01:48:25 You Are What You Pretend to Be
02:01:37 Where to Find Derek

01 October 2024

Why Do Humans Actually Have Emotions? - Modern Wisdom with Dr Laith Al-Shawaf

Dr Laith Al-Shawaf is an evolutionary psychology researcher and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCCS. Humans have a wide range of emotions. But why do we feel anything at all? Why do we actually have emotions and how did they come about? Expect to learn why humans evolved to have emotions, whether some emotions are more basic than others, evolutionary explanations for joy, anger, disgust, envy, awe, happiness and much more…

00:00:00 Why Do We Have Emotions?
00:06:37 How Our Emotions Advocate For Us
00:14:02 Emotions From an Evolutionary Perspective
00:20:54 Are Some Emotions More Basic Than Others?
00:25:02 Why We Experience Fear & Surprise
00:28:34 How Shame is Adaptive
00:36:47 Why Anxiety is So Prevalent in Modern Society
00:44:59 Explaining the Trait of Need for Cognition
00:54:14 Feeling Emotions About Emotions
01:03:49 The Difference Between Envy & Jealousy
01:08:33 Emotions That Aren’t Really Adaptive
01:16:26 How Laith Applies His Work to Daily Life
01:32:55 Where to Find Laith