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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2736: Is Location Independence BS? AND Forever Does Not Exist by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

2 shorter posts from Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists sharing their thoughts on location independence and why forever does not exist. Episode 2736: Is Location Independence BS? AND Forever Does Not Exist by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. The original posts are located here: http://www.theminimalists.com/location/ & http://www.theminimalists.com/forever/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2736.

0:04.0

Is location independence, both?

0:06.9

And forever does not exist.

0:09.3

Both by Joshua Fields-Millburn and Ryan Nicodemis of the Minimalist.com.

0:13.5

And I'm Justin Mollock, the guy that reads to you every single day of the year, including

0:16.7

weekends and holidays to help you live a more meaningful and positive life, to post today.

0:22.1

So let's get right to them as we optimize your life.

0:29.5

Is location independence, both?

0:31.6

By Joshua Fields-Millburn and Ryan Nicodemis of the Minimalist.com.

0:36.5

I can't be a minimalist because I don't have the desire to travel.

0:40.3

Man, if we had a dollar for every time we heard something like that.

0:43.4

Many people stumble across the extreme aspects of minimalism and immediately think, that

0:47.9

is not for me.

0:49.5

They see minimalists with 55 things and think, not only does that seem unattainable for me

0:53.7

and for my family, but I don't even want that kind of lifestyle.

0:57.9

You see minimalists with parabotetic lifestyles who travel all over the world and say, that's

1:02.3

cool, but I don't want to do that.

1:04.9

But of course, minimalism isn't about counting your stuff.

1:08.3

Even Dave Bruno, the guy who started this whole counting thing with his 100th thing challenge,

1:12.7

would tell you that counting is not the point.

1:15.4

And minimalism isn't about traveling all over the world with everything you own strapped

1:19.2

to your back either.

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