The Action Catalyst
REMASTERED: The ONE Thing, with Jay Papasan (Productivity, Discipline, Mindset, Author)
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
Author, speaker, and executive Jay Papasan explains a few of the biggest lies about productivity, defines "switch-tasking", and dives into the science of discipline, LITERALLY feeding willpower, and the demonization of open floorplans.
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Researchers believe about a quarter of our day, 28% is lost to this, and we're not even aware of it. It costs you time, it makes you dumb, and you're just less effective. It makes me a little bit sad.
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Jay Papasan is at Keller Inc., which is the publishing arm of Keller Williams Realty. And getting a chance to talk with Jay is exciting because Jay is also Gary Keller's co-author. And they've written several bestselling books, including The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, which was a New York Times bestseller. And then The One Thing.
And The One Thing was a number one or is a number one Wall Street Journal bestseller. business bestseller. Jay is the co-author. He's here with us now. He is one of the most powerful people in real estate and just an awesome, awesome guy. So Jay, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. So if people haven't heard of The One Thing, what is the main premise, overall concept in a nutshell?
We wanted to explore how people get extraordinary results. Not average, but extraordinary. What's an approach that we can take for that? And for us, it was about focus. But we tried to come at it from a new angle. How do you identify the one thing, right? What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else is easier or unnecessary?
What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary? You're looking for the biggest lever in your life. to achieve your goals. And we wanted to help people identify that and then implement that thing.
In the one thing, Jay, you know, kind of the opening part of the book, you talk about the lies of productivity.
Before we talk about what we want you to do, we often say, what do we have to get out of your head? And in this book, we call those the lies. And the first lie, which we felt like was the number one, was this idea that everything matters equally. And I actually don't think people argue that or express it, but it's act that way. And it's because our to-do lists are too full.
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