288 | Decluttering Friendships
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about our desire for friendship that leads us to accumulate scores of friends, acquaintances, coworkers, partners, lovers, companions, contacts, colleagues, and associates; our realization that relationship clutter is getting in the way of loving, meaningful connections; and they answer the following questions:
Is it loving to let go? (00:00)
How can I stop feeling pressured to keep up with so many connections? (03:57)
I’ve never struggled to declutter my “friends” on social media when they no longer have a meaningful place in my life, but how do I explain their removal when they ask me about it without hurting their feelings? (13:53)
What does a truly healthy friendship look like? (20:56)
How do we ensure mutual respect in a relationship? (28:46)
How do we appropriately apply attention in a relationship? (29:43)
How do you define “toxic relationship”? (34:49)
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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. |
| 0:06.1 | Da Minimalists. |
| 0:08.1 | Hmph. |
| 0:09.1 | Howdy y'all. |
| 0:09.9 | Josh and I, we'd love to give you something for free. |
| 0:12.0 | That's right, we've got a brand new book coming out called Love People Use Things. |
| 0:15.3 | It comes out July 13th, but if you pre-order it, |
| 0:18.1 | before June 1st, you get the free companion workbook that goes alongside this. |
| 0:23.1 | Head on over to LovePeopleUseThings.net to find all the details. |
| 0:54.1 | Hello, SimpleThings. |
| 0:55.1 | Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 1:00.1 | My name is Joshua Fields-Millburn. |
| 1:01.6 | And I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the Minimalists. |
| 1:04.6 | Ryan, we all want friendship in our lives. |
| 1:06.6 | Yes. |
| 1:07.6 | So we accumulate scores of friends. |
| 1:09.6 | You have scores of friends? |
| 1:11.1 | Well, we collectively. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:13.6 | It scores of acquaintances and co-workers and partners and lovers and companions and contacts and colleagues and associates. |
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