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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

346: A Rolex Won't Give You More Time and I Got Rid of 2,000 Books by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. Episode 346: A Rolex Won't Give You More Time and I Got Rid of 2,000 Books by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists (Clutter). The Minimalists' Book "Essential" can be found here: http://www.theminimalists.com/books Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.4

It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 346. A Rolex won't give you

1:08.7

more time, and I got rid of 2000 books from the audiobook essential essays by the minimalist,

1:14.7

and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome to OLD, the podcast where I get permission from authors of some of

1:20.0

the best blogs on the planet, and read them to you all for free. Some of the authors include a

1:25.2

wide selection of minimalist, like the minimalist, who I'm going to be reading today, Joshua Becker,

1:30.2

Courtney Carver, Leo Bout of Zenhabits, and a bunch of other personal development masters,

1:34.7

like Mark and Angel, Steve Pavlina, and more. And I'm not actually reading this to you live,

1:40.4

this is from the audiobook that I narrated for them. But since this is a minimalist Monday,

1:45.0

I'm going to keep this minimal and get right to the audiobook as we optimize your life.

1:49.1

And excerpt from the audiobook essential essays by the minimalist.

1:57.6

A Rolex won't give you more time by Joshua Fields-Millburn. A friend recently emailed me to

2:03.1

communicate the buyer's remorse he was experiencing after purchasing an expensive watch.

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