422 | The Comfort Crisis
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists speak with Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain, about embracing boredom and starting from scratch after losing everything. Watch all 2 hours of episode 422 on The Minimalists Private Podcast.
Discussed in this episode:
How do we start from scratch after losing everything? (02:29)
Why can’t humans embrace boredom? (22:30)
How can we achieve work-life balance with a constantly changing schedule? (35:20)
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast has bad words. Every little thing you think that you need every little thing you think that you need every little thing |
| 0:27.0 | that you need every little thing that's just feeding your greed oh I bet that you'll be fine without it. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to the minimalist podcast |
| 0:41.0 | for we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:44.6 | My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn, Ryan Nicodemus is in Montana, and T.K. |
| 0:48.9 | Coleman is sick today. |
| 0:51.0 | Get well soon, T.K. But don't worry, we've got the most beautiful voice in America with us. |
| 0:57.2 | A, Alabama's here. |
| 0:59.2 | Hi everybody. |
| 1:00.2 | We've got the rest of our team in the studio as well. |
| 1:02.5 | Coming up today on this free public minimal episode, |
| 1:05.9 | we're joined by Michael Easter, |
| 1:07.7 | author of The Comfort Crisis and the new book, |
| 1:10.9 | Scarcity Brain. |
| 1:11.9 | Together, we talk to a caller who has a question about |
| 1:14.6 | the discomfort of letting go and then another listener has a question about |
| 1:19.6 | dealing with boredom. Then we've got our lightning round segment and a listener tip for you. |
| 1:25.4 | You can check out the full two hour maximum edition of episode |
| 1:29.0 | 422 where we answer five times the questions and we dive deep into several simple living segments. |
| 1:37.0 | That private podcast episode is out right now at Patreon. |
| 1:40.0 | dot com slash The Minimalists. |
| 1:42.0 | Your support keeps our podcast and YouTube channel 100 |
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