318 | Eleven Simple Years
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about what they’ve learned, how they’ve grown, and in what ways they’ve subtracted since they started The Minimalists eleven years ago, and they answer the following questions:
How has your understanding of, and approach toward, minimalism developed over the last eleven years? (00:00)
Why does minimalism seem radical? (05:34)
How do we address our issue with clinging? (06:44)
What is the most important lesson you’ve learned about consumerism? (10:13)
What is the “god-shaped hole”? (12:04)
Based on your eleven years of experience in minimalism, what advice do you have for those of us starting on our minimalism journey at an older age? (16:38)
Is deprivation helpful? (24:03)
If you had the power to make everyone a minimalist, would you do it? (28:53)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Minimizers, welcome to the Minimulus Podcast where we discuss what it means to live |
| 0:11.6 | a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:13.9 | My name is Joshua Fields-Milburn. |
| 0:15.3 | And I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the Minimulus. |
| 0:18.6 | 11 years of less. |
| 0:21.5 | That's right Ryan. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah man. |
| 0:23.5 | December 14th, which is officially the 11 year anniversary of the Minimulus. |
| 0:30.2 | How cool is that man? |
| 0:31.4 | Did you think this would last 11 years? |
| 0:33.6 | I didn't have an expectation around it thankfully. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah me either. |
| 0:37.5 | But on today's podcast that's what we're going to talk about. |
| 0:39.6 | We're going to talk about what we've learned, what we've grown and in what ways we've |
| 0:44.6 | subtracted. |
| 0:46.2 | Then this Thursday on the Minimulus Private Podcast, Ryan and I are going to talk about, |
| 0:50.3 | well, we're going to talk about our many personal failures over the last 11 years. |
| 0:55.4 | You can check that out at patreon.com slash the Minimulus. |
| 0:59.1 | Your support keeps our podcast and YouTube channel 100% advertisement free because advertisement |
| 1:06.1 | suck. |
| 1:07.1 | Ryan, our first question today is from Jill on Facebook. |
| 1:10.8 | How is your understanding of and approach towards minimalism developed over the last seven |
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