277 | Unusual Living Arrangements
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about alternative living options—communal living, throuples, combined families, long-term singlehood, nomadic living—with the CEO and cofounder of Nourish Balance Thrive, Christopher Kelly, and they answer the following questions:
What is ancestral health? (03:20)
What has likely caused our overall decline in health? (05:08)
Is our current status quo of living arrangements in detrimental conflict with the natural order? (07:28)
How do people continue to help the paradigm of the nuclear family work? (10:40)
How do we set appropriate boundaries with roommates and ensure those boundaries are not crossed to prevent theft, property damage, and tense co-living environments? (11:59)
What is Christopher’s communal living arrangement? (12:38)
Why did Christopher adopt his communal living arrangement? (13:53)
How does Christopher manage living with several different families? (15:34)
What is ‘helicopter parenting’? (20:53)
What is your definition of “commune”? (22:59)
What are the pros and cons of unusual living arrangements in cultures that wholly embrace them? (28:36)
What does the “WEIRD” acronym represent? (30:56)
How do you define “solitude”? (32:40)
What is Joshua’s living arrangement? (33:51)
What is the ‘sweet spot’ regarding how many people you can live with? (35:25)
Who created the monogamous nuclear family? (38:40)
At what point does a group become a cult? (48:50)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Minimalist is brought to you by... |
| 0:02.7 | Nobody. |
| 0:03.7 | Because advertisements suck. |
| 0:05.7 | It's focused on backwards. |
| 0:08.2 | Hmm. |
| 0:09.2 | Every little thing you think that you need. |
| 0:32.2 | Hello everybody, welcome to The Minimalist Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:44.2 | My name is Joshua Fields-Millburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the minimalist. |
| 0:48.7 | Today we're gonna talk about alternative living options Ryan. |
| 0:52.7 | It sounds like we're opening up a center. |
| 0:55.2 | It does doesn't it? |
| 0:56.2 | The alternative living options center. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm trying to think of the most crazy living arrangement like you and I could do. |
| 1:04.2 | If Mariah moved in with you and then Bex moved in with me and we were roommates. |
| 1:09.2 | That's not unappealing. |
| 1:13.2 | Actually, yeah it is. |
| 1:15.2 | But it is because Mariah is in LA 100% of the time. |
| 1:18.2 | Right. |
| 1:19.2 | You would never get any alone time. |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:21.2 | So there's a bunch of different ways we could talk about. |
| 1:23.2 | Although we have Christopher Kelly here from NERSH Balance Thrive. |
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