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Joshua Fields Millburn

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Joshua talks about stoicism, what it means to live a good life, and different philosophies for living with author and professor William B. Irvine, and they answer the following questions:

Is stoicism applicable to all cultures? (10:05)

How do I explain the benefits of stoicism to my loved ones? (18:38)

How do I practice stoicism without sacrificing human emotion? (26:20)

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0:00.0	Don Minimists.
0:30.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the Minimists podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful
0:37.9	life with less. My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn and today we're going to talk about stoicism.
0:43.4	We're going to talk about what it means to live a good life and we're going to compare some
0:47.8	different philosophies for living and we're going to do all that with today's guests. I'm talking to
0:53.7	William B. Irvine today. Bill, you're the author of a couple, quite a few books. First off,
0:59.9	thank you for joining us. I really appreciate it. I'm looking forward to this conversation.
1:03.8	Thank you for the invitation. It's a pleasure to be here. Now, you're in my hometown right now,
1:10.0	Dayton Ohio. What brought you out to Dayton? A job. I was a graduate student in philosophy and
1:18.8	this would have been in the late 70s and early 80s and any work you could get counted as a gift
1:26.1	from the gods. I was in Cincinnati for a year. A faculty member had gone on leave, so they needed
1:35.3	someone to fill that post when he came back. I was no longer needed and just up the road, I found
1:42.5	a job here and I've been here for what, 37 years, something crazy like that. Wow. I spent the first
1:50.4	31 years of my life. I was born right across the street from you over at Wright Pat. It's fascinating
1:57.0	that I've really been into to stoicism for maybe the last decade or so after reading many of the
2:03.6	greats. I've got to tell you, I know you've written quite a few books, but the book I want to talk
2:08.4	most about today and I'll hold the sub for the camera for folks watching this on YouTube is a
2:13.5	guide to the good life. The subtitle here is The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Now, the reason I like
2:22.8	this book in particular, Bill, is I find a lot of stoic writing to be very informative, but I also
2:29.8	find it to be somewhat dry and your writing is not that. In fact, I find it to be very lucid and
2:37.8	very digestible and also it's a great reference. I've actually, for folks who are watching this,
2:43.8	can see I've got two bookmarks here. I find that I keep going back to this book and using the
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