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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

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists talk about earning a living from creative pursuits with writer Jeff Goins, and they answer the following questions:

Why do even the most talented artists often struggle financially? (02:43)

What is the premise of Jeff’s book? (03:35)

How does stubbornness help artists? (04:31)

How does a hyper focus on details harm artists? (07:43)

What is the importance of patrons for artists? (12:55)

How do artists best actualize their dreams? (24:22)

What is the best use of our creations that no longer hold any meaning for us—save for posterity, recycle, repurpose, trash? (25:30)

How do I best manage my PR on social media so I have adequate time to produce my art? (38:18)

What is the Sunday Symposium? (45:10)

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0:00.0	Elita
0:12.1	The
0:20.3	All in
0:26.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the Minimals Podcast.
0:29.6	We discuss what it means to live a meaningful life.
0:31.9	With less, my name is Joshua Phil Timilburn, and I'm Ryan Nicodemus, and together we are
0:35.6	the Minimalists.
0:36.6	Ryan, we've heard it a thousand times.
0:39.0	There's no money in art.
0:42.0	It's too risky.
0:43.7	You'll starve to death.
0:45.9	So we end up chasing more stable careers.
0:48.1	We become lawyers and engineers and operations managers instead of writers and filmmakers
0:54.4	and painters.
0:56.2	We settle.
0:57.2	Remember Ryan, we certainly settled in our 20s.
0:59.3	Oh yeah.
1:00.3	What do we settle for?
1:01.3	We settled for a nice corporate career, a nice ladder to climb up, but unfortunately,
1:07.1	yeah, we climbed high enough.
1:09.1	We were like, wait a minute, this is the wrong ladder.
1:12.3	And what you're talking about makes me think about how when you decided to get off that
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