3363: Jealousy Is a Wasted Emotion AND Why Is My Phone About to Die by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3363: Joshua Fields Millburn explores how jealousy is a destructive emotion, rooted in societal competition and consumer culture. He argues that we can choose not to experience jealousy, offering simple methods to eliminate it, ultimately leading to greater emotional well-being and freedom from comparison. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://www.theminimalists.com/jealousy/ & http://www.theminimalists.com/die/ Quotes to ponder: "Jealousy is ugly: it is never a way to express we care, it’s only a channel through which we broadcast our insecurities." "Jealousy, no matter how jealous we get, will never help." "Like our televisions, we can choose to turn it off." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	It's a minimalist Monday edition of optimal living daily.
0:34.0	Jealousy is a wasted emotion.
0:37.0	And, why's my phone about to die?
0:39.0	Both by Joshuafields Milburn of the Minimalist.com,
0:42.0	and I'm your very own personal narrator Justin Mollick reading to you from
0:46.2	amazing blogs and books sometimes in the hopes that you'll benefit by
0:50.4	listening to something positive every single day.
0:53.0	I feel like I've benefited greatly from reading an article to you,
0:56.0	and it makes it so much better knowing that you're there listening along with me.
1:00.0	So thank you for that.
1:01.0	And thank you to the authors who let me do this.
1:03.9	Today's authors Josh of the minimalist.
1:06.2	Got two posts today from him, so let's get right to them
1:09.0	as we optimize your life. We all get jealous, don't we?
1:23.0	Actually, no, not everyone experiences jealousy as an emotion.
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