3955: Life Is an Acquired Taste AND Resolving to Learn from Failure by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 11 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 3955: Joshua Fields Milburn shows how removing excess, whether in coffee or consumption, reveals a richer, more intentional life, even if the transition feels uncomfortable at first. He also reframes failure as a powerful tool for personal change, demonstrating that even imperfect experiments can permanently reshape habits and priorities. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://www.theminimalists.com/coffee/ & http://www.theminimalists.com/failure/ Quotes to ponder: "Black coffee is a synecdoche for life when you eliminate the excess when you deliberately avoid life's empty calories what remains is exponentially more delicious more enjoyable more worthwhile" "A meaningful life is an acquired taste sip slowly and enjoy" "Minimalism has never been about deprivation rather minimalism is about getting rid of life's excess in favor of the essential" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I started listening to Weather in Heights to help me fall asleep.
0:04.0	The moment the narrator began, everything slowed.
0:08.0	Whatever our souls are made off, his and mine are the same.
0:13.0	The moors, the stormy skies, the poetry of the story pulls me in and I just drift off.
0:22.8	Life changes when you listen.
0:25.2	Weather in Heights by Emily Bronte.
0:27.3	Now on Spotify.
0:30.3	Now are all the traitors present?
0:32.8	Let's get started, shall we?
0:34.8	From rags to riches.
0:36.1	I'm so sick of this.
0:37.4	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:39.5	Yorkshire to New York. Or climbers you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion
0:46.1	to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4, stream now. It's a minimalist Monday edition
0:52.7	of optimal living daily. Life is an acquired taste. And
0:57.1	resolving to learn from failure, both by Joshua Fields Milburn of theminimalist.com, and I'm
1:03.1	Justa Malik, your narrator. Sometimes I share two articles in one episode, that's the case today,
1:08.5	so let's get right to them and continue optimizing your life.
1:16.1	Life is an acquired taste by Joshua Fields Milburn of the Minimalist.com.
1:22.0	The best coffee house in the United States isn't located in Seattle, Portland, New York City, or any of the usual suspects.
1:30.5	Press coffee bars nestled between a parking lot and a sewing shop across the street from a pair
1:34.5	of abandoned warehouses and beneath several stories of old brick apartments in Dayton, Ohio,
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