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Hello everybody, welcome to the Minimals Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life.

With less, my name is Joshua Fields-Millburn.

While quarantined, Ryan and I have been using this time to do something special.

Not only did we finish our next book, which is called Love People Use Things,

which will be out early 2021.

And I cannot wait for you to read this book.

But also, each day while quarantined in our homes, Ryan and I have both been calling up some friends,

also some friends of the podcast, and talking to them for about 10 or 15 minutes,

just these short but meaningful conversations about how they are coping

and how some of them are even thriving during this pandemic.

It's a bunch of different perspectives.

And we've been recording these quarantine conversations, which is what we've been calling them.

We're recording them with our friends' permission, of course.

And we've been releasing one a day over on the Minimals Private Podcast on Patreon.

You can listen to all 40 days of quarantine for free if you're a podcast supporter

over at theminimalists.com slash support.

Now, today I wanted to share three of these important conversations with you here on this podcast episode.

So even if you're not a podcast supporter, you can still get some value from these conversations.

I'll tell you what, I think this pandemic is really putting things in perspective for many of us.

We finally understand that an economy that's predicated on exponential growth isn't a healthy economy.

It's a vulnerable one.

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