This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 122.

Minimalism is not a radical lifestyle,

and ending the tyranny of cool by Joshua Fields-Millburn of the Minimalist.com.

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Minimalism is not a radical lifestyle, by Joshua Fields-Millburn of the Minimalist.com.

When some people meet me and they feel compelled to talk about minimalism,

they think I live a radical lifestyle. They say things like, I can never be a minimalist.

But the truth is that my lifestyle is not radical, and I'm not a radical person.

If you met me today and we didn't talk about minimalism, which we probably wouldn't,

you wouldn't think my lifestyle is much different than yours. I don't count my stuff,

but I have hundreds of things even after I got rid of 90% of my stuff. I own a car,

I own pots and pans and kitchen utensils, I own a queen-sized bed, I own a smartphone,

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