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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

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan talk about hoarding—the clinical definition, the statistics, the causes, the symptoms, the common types, the risks, the recovery—and they answer the following questions:

What is the clinical definition of “hoarding”? (03:00)

What is “spartanism”? (03:35)

What are the common types of hoarding? (05:43)

What is the difference between hoarding and collecting? (09:30)

What is the “sunk-cost fallacy”? (11:02)

What are the symptoms of hoarding? (21:56)

What are the causes of hoarding? (23:30)

How is hoarding diagnosed? (27:51)

Do children hoard? (29:41)

When do obsessions become unhealthy? (31:38)

What are the five levels of hoarding? (32:04)

Are there affluent hoarders? (43:17)

How does one become a hoarder? (45:16)

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0:00.0	This episode of The Minimalists is brought to you by...
0:02.7	Nobody.
0:03.7	Because advertisements suck.
0:05.7	Time Minimists.
0:35.7	Hello to our fellow Simple Tens.
0:41.2	Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast.
0:42.9	We're going to discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.
0:46.3	My name is Joshua Philz-Milburn.
0:48.0	And I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the head Simple Tens.
0:52.0	You know what?
0:53.0	I'm here with my future co-dependent Ryan Nicodemus.
0:56.0	What was I said you would...
0:59.0	It's actually like, hey, can you be just the heads up?
1:01.0	I'm using you as a reference for like an apartment that Mariah and I are trying to get.
1:05.0	And you were like at this point, I've already opted in to everything up to it including co-dependent.
1:11.5	What is co-...
1:12.5	What is a co-dependent?
1:13.5	It means we're both charged for the murder, right?
1:16.5	Man.
1:18.5	Or for hoarding.
1:20.5	Today we're talking about hoarding.
1:22.5	And you know, it's...
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