308 | Clinging to Things
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about trading in our materialistic clinging for transcendent freedom with author, podcaster, and comedian Lisa Lampanelli, and they answer the following questions:
How do you define “humor”? (00:00)
What is the “United States of Avoidance”? (08:26)
When life changes your path, how do you stop clinging to the hope you once had? (14:20)
How do we accept the death of a dream? (15:33)
What do you mean by “daring to suck”? (17:45)
Is it helpful to simply treat our passions as hobbies until they pay the bills? (18:25)
How did Lisa get her start in comedy? (20:18)
When a loved one has passed, how do I honor their final wishes as executor and appropriately distribute the possessions they clung to when they did not leave specific instructions for doing so? (22:46)
How do you stop clinging to the security of a job simply because it pays well? (29:56)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Minimalist is brought to you by... |
| 0:02.8 | Nobody. |
| 0:03.8 | Because advertisements suck. |
| 0:05.8 | Time Minimists. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello Minimizers, welcome to The Minimalist Podcast |
| 0:39.6 | to rediscover what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:43.6 | My name is Joshua Filz-Milber and I'm Ryan Nicodemis. |
| 0:46.1 | And together we are the Minimists. |
| 0:47.8 | When humans cling, we get dragged by whatever we cling to. |
| 0:52.1 | Material possessions, careers, status, achievements, ideologies, |
| 0:57.6 | the town we grew up in, toxic relationships, |
| 1:01.8 | to cling is to give up a piece of freedom just to retain something that brings with it a sliver of pleasure |
| 1:10.1 | and often a world of misery. |
| 1:13.6 | That's what we're talking about today with a very special guest here in the studio. |
| 1:18.3 | We have a storyteller, a performer, a Grammy-nominated comedian. |
| 1:23.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the new and impossibly improved Lisa Lamponelli. |
| 1:28.3 | Yay! Oh my God! |
| 1:31.8 | You guys have made my dreams come true. I'm obsessed with the Minimalist. |
| 1:35.3 | I can't believe it. It's the only podcast that I buy as a Patreon subscriber. |
| 1:41.1 | Because I'm like, I can't get enough of these two. |
| 1:43.1 | I love them. Oh my God. |
| 1:44.6 | You're the age group that I always thought would hate me because you're the age group that can't tell everybody. |
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