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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

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan talk about how The Minimalists apply minimalism to social media, how they’ve changed their opinion about social media over the years, and they review the new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma with social media specialist Jess Williams, and they answer the following questions:

Is social media the original social distancing? (02:06)

How do we do a better job of using social media as a tool? (07:17)

What are the problems with social media? (16:16)

Has the smartphone become more of a distraction than the TV? (20:57)

Do we unfairly judge others in assuming that they’re simply wasting time on their smartphones rather than being productive? (21:46)

Has the ubiquitousness of social media contributed to creating an overly judgmental society? (26:48)

How do we set appropriate boundaries for social media? (28:06)

How do I address the desire to explain my behavior to others? (30:20)

Why do disagreements escalate so quickly on social media? (31:50)

How do I balance staying informed with being in the moment? (38:29)

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0:00.0	This episode of The Minimalist is brought to you by...
0:02.4	Nobody.
0:03.3	Because...
0:04.0	Advertisement suck.
0:06.3	Damn Minimalists.
0:08.0	Hmm.
0:30.0	Feeding your greed, oh I bet that you'd be fine without it.
0:39.2	Hello everybody, welcome to The Minimalist Podcast.
0:41.2	We've been discussing what it means to live a meaningful life.
0:43.8	For the last, my name is Joshua Fields-Milber.
0:45.5	And I'm Ryan Nicodemus, and together we are the Minimalists.
0:48.4	We're here with the second and a half Minimalists here.
0:51.0	Yes.
0:51.9	Jess Nest Williams is in the house.
0:53.6	Jessica Lynn Williams.
0:55.3	Yes.
0:56.0	Thanks for being here.
0:57.0	Thanks for having me.
0:58.1	This is weird.
0:58.8	Thanks for being here.
0:59.8	Today we're going to talk about how the Minimalists apply Minimalism to social media.
1:05.6	We're going to talk about how we've changed our opinion about social media over the years,
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