Episode 36
E36 - Expanding Consciousness with Bestselling Author David Allen
David Allen is one of the world's most influential thinkers on productivity and he has 35 years experience as a management consultant and executive coach. He’s earned the titles of personal productivity guru by Fast Company Magazine and one of America's top five executive coaches by Forbes Magazine. The American management association has ranked him in the top 10 business leaders. His bestselling book, the groundbreaking Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress Free Productivity has been published in 30 languages. And the GTB methodology it describes has become a global phenomenon, being taught by training companies in 60 countries. David and his partners are dedicated to teaching people how to stay relaxed and productive in our fast-paced world.
Tyler and David’s discussion focused on the expansion of consciousness to become and remain more free and present. David shared why and how he created the GTD methodology, and its intention of not making life easy, but making life conscious. He also discussed how GTD helps business professionals handle the volume and variety of work they experience on a day-to-day basis, and he shared what day in the life looks like for him.
Other topics included rapid refocusing, martial arts as it relates to being present, ambient anxiety, the stress of opportunity, listening, scaling GTD for teams, David’s recent reads and more. David has trained hundreds of thousands of people, with 50,000+ hours dedicated to some of the most successful and brightest people, and he shares a wealth of wisdom in this episode!
You can connect with David through the links below:
Getting Things Done Website
VitalSmarts Website
Instagram
The books mentioned in the show can be purchased below:
Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Successful Aging, by Daniel Levitin
Erasmus Biography, by Leon E. Halkin
The Antidote, by Oliver Burkeman
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