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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

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists talk about different kinds of surprise purchases, impulse purchases, and annoying purchases, and they answer the following questions: What’s the difference between surprise purchases and impulse purchases? (01:39)

Why do sales seem particularly pernicious now? (04:06)

What are the two kinds of surprise purchases? (07:44)

Do manufacturers bear any burden for creating superfluous products that exist as little more than items to be purchased as surprise gifts for others based on their novelty rather than their practicality? (11:33)

Are we being too dismissive of new technology that seems to promote sedentary lifestyles but could be incredibly helpful to the physically challenged? (19:34)

How do we get our partners to include us in the purchasing processes of significant items? (25:20)

How do you define “compassion”? (29:32)

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0:00.0	Every little thing you think that you need
0:15.2	Every little thing you think that you need
0:19.6	Every little thing that you're feeding your greatest
0:22.6	I'd be fine without you
0:25.1	How about you?
0:27.6	Hello everybody, welcome to the Minimals podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.
0:33.5	My name is Joshua Philz-Milburn, I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the minimalist.
0:38.0	Ryan, we all like surprises, right?
0:40.5	Mm-hmm.
0:41.4	Surprise!
0:42.8	What'd you get me?
0:43.8	Well, it's an unwelcome surprise, Ryan.
0:47.2	Isn't that funny, right?
0:48.8	Because if something is an unwelcome surprise, we call it a disruption, we call it a disturbance,
0:55.3	we call it an annoyance.
0:58.2	Yeah.
0:58.7	We don't usually call it a surprise, right?
1:01.8	Yeah.
1:02.3	That's what I want to talk to you about on today's public episode.
1:05.2	We're going to talk about surprise purchases slash annoying purchases.
1:10.5	Mm-hmm.
1:11.4	And then this Thursday on the Minimals Private Podcast, Ryan and I are going to talk to listeners about the occasions
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