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The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Finances, Home & Garden, Leisure, Mental Health, Minimalism, Contribution, Passion, Minimalists, Health & Fitness, Decluttering, Philosophy, Health, Relationships, Growth, Simple, Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan expand on how to live—not just survive, but thrive—through these unsettling times. They discuss societal panic, fundamental habit shifts, and the appropriate actions we should take in the midst of a pandemic, and they answer the following questions:

How should we address the societal panic during the pandemic? (06:16)

What things that we’ve taken for granted will now fundamentally change as a result of the pandemic? (16:00)

What actions should we take right now? (29:26)

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0:00.0	Don Minimists
0:30.0	Hello, Simpletons. You may notice something different right now. By the way, I'm Joshua Fields-Milburn.
0:38.0	And I'm Ryan Nicodemus, and together we are the Minimists.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Minimists podcast to rediscover what it means to live a meaningful life.
0:46.0	With less, if you're watching this on video, you'll notice that I am in my kitchen right now.
0:51.0	And Ryan is in the studio with podcast Sean.
0:54.0	We wanted to take social distancing to the max.
0:58.0	This is like heaven for me. Finally, Ryan.
1:02.0	I'm able to live out my dreams.
1:05.0	I ordered a bunch of mayonnaise jars from Amazon.
1:08.0	Oh my god.
1:10.0	I'm gonna be pinging them for weeks.
1:12.0	Oh, dude.
1:14.0	Actually, I'm home because I have some cold symptoms.
1:18.0	I don't have any reason to believe that I have come into contact with SARS-CoV-2, which is the actual name of the novel coronavirus.
1:30.0	People often confuse the coronavirus with COVID-19, which is the resulting disease from SARS-CoV-2.
1:40.0	So just to be safe, I'm pretty sure I just have a cold.
1:44.0	I don't have any of the major symptoms of COVID-19.
1:48.0	I don't have a fever. I don't have a cough.
1:50.0	But I do have some symptoms. I am not a symptomatic.
1:54.0	And so I'm recording this from home.
1:56.0	And this is a nice little experiment, I think, for us, Ryan.
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