224 | Pandemic Preparation

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

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4.7 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss the appropriate preparation and response to societal crises with the Director of Entrepreneurial Education for the Foundation for Economic Education, T.K. Coleman, and they answer the following questions:

How likely is a minimalist to survive in a catastrophe? (23:07)

How do I quarantine for 2-6 weeks as a minimalist? (39:15)

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0:00.0	It's focused on backwards.
0:30.0	Hello, Simpletons. What's up, y'all? Today is, well, it's a weird day. We've had a lot
0:39.4	going on this past week. The last week has felt like an eternity. And so, by the way,
0:46.4	this is a minimalist podcast. We discussed what it means to live a meaningful life with
0:50.6	less. And in these times, especially, today we're going to talk about pandemic preparation.
0:56.6	I'm Joshua Fields-Millburn. I'm Ryan Nicodemis. And together, we are the minimalist. And we got our
1:01.1	MVP here with us. Yes, indeed. And so, TK Coleman is here, our returning champion. He's been on
1:07.6	this podcast. I think more than anyone else at this point. Yeah, man. And so, TK was in town
1:12.0	because we were working on a film project with Netflix. We had about 30 people coming into
1:19.4	town in total from crew and other people we were interviewing. And because of what's going on
1:27.2	with the coronavirus, we had to postpone the entire thing. And this is the second thing we
1:33.1	actually postponed this week. We had to postpone our Les Coast tour, which TK was going to join us on
1:39.1	in Sacramento. We're going to postpone that. We're looking at some dates in September or November.
1:45.2	But that's simply an inconvenience. So, we're going to talk about the coronavirus today a little bit,
1:51.0	but I wanted to talk more broadly about preparation, not in the sense of prepping, like preppers,
1:57.5	but preparing. Right. And so, I'm going to argue today that minimalist are actually more prepared to
2:07.6	deal with catastrophe, more prepared to deal with pandemics than the average person. And certainly more
2:15.5	so than a lot of so-called preppers. And so, these are some somber times, but I do want to handle a lot
2:22.5	of it with jokes. And so, we're going to be as upbeat as possible today. This is the first time I've
2:30.0	been in a room with more than becks in nearly a week at this point. I don't know, you must be going crazy.
2:36.2	Yeah. I mean, I have been self-quarantining, but I've been self-quarantining for 38 years.
2:42.1	And as an extreme introvert. And now, here we are today, we've got some questions for Josh
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