Systema For Life

Systema For Life


Episode 138: Greg McKeown

September 17, 2021

This week, a rare hour with bestselling author, speaker, and leadership specialist Greg McKeown.  Greg is the author of the best-selling Essentialism: the Disciplined Pursuit of Less (2014), and the new New York Times bestseller, Effortless (2021). If you haven't read them, the relevance of Greg's central principles to Systema training are well worth exploring.

Here, we discuss:



  • the futility of trying to "do it all"
  • minimum viable actions vs minimum effective doses of effort
  • releasing, noticing, and removing the cataracts of distraction
  • creating and maintaining an effortless state of action


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