284 | Think the Opposite
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan discuss how we’re too often led astray by the status quo and how we can benefit from doing the opposite, and they answer the following questions:
What does it mean to be authentic? (00:00)
What is so problematic about trends? (04:58)
Can we find meaning in suffering? (10:56)
Why are opinions so inconsequential? (20:48)
When have you benefited from thinking the opposite? (22:21)
I’m being advised by my ethics class in college that retirement is detrimental to our growth and development as human beings—do you think that is true? (29:20)
What is the best kind of growth? (34:31)
Some of the worst advice I’ve received is, “Fake it until you make it”—what is wrong with being a work in progress? (44:30)
How is all advice flawed advice? (44:59)
Do we improve our lives more by addition or subtraction? (52:00)
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| 0:00.0 | I could, I could, I could drop dead right now. |
| 0:03.6 | Oh, you're not. |
| 0:04.6 | Am I letting her do it? |
| 0:05.8 | That's what I said. |
| 0:06.8 | This is what I said. |
| 0:08.8 | If I was to drop dead right now, my last thought would |
| 0:11.9 | be I've had a good life. |
| 0:14.5 | It's focused on backwards. |
| 0:16.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:18.2 | Every little thing, you think that you need. |
| 0:31.9 | Every little thing, you think that you need. |
| 0:36.6 | Every little thing that's just feeding your greed. |
| 0:40.8 | Oh, I bet that you'll be fine without it. |
| 0:44.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to the Minimalist Podcast. |
| 0:46.7 | We discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:49.6 | My name is Joshua Fields-Millburn, and I'm Ryan Nicodemus, and together we are the Minimalists. |
| 0:53.8 | Ryan, what if everything you've ever been told by society is wrong? |
| 0:59.0 | Everything. |
| 1:00.0 | Everything. |
| 1:01.0 | Not morally wrong, but simply incorrect or misleading. |
| 1:07.1 | Would we all benefit from maybe doing the opposite? |
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