448 | Minimal Aging
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists sit down with Colin Wright, author of How to Turn 39: Thoughts About Aging for People of All Ages, to talk about youth, aging, redefining accomplishments, and more.
Discussed in this episode:
What does it mean for young people to embrace the natural aging process? (2:22)
Would your 15-year-old self be impressed by you today? (26:19)
What gift does JFM want for his 43rd birthday? (43:24)
Listener tip: How can you downsize 100 items in one hour? (45:10)
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Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast
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| 0:00.0 | The Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:24.8 | Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:29.4 | Every little thing you think that you need every little thing that's just feeding your greed oh I bet that you'll be fine without it. |
| 0:37.0 | You're listening to the minimalist podcast with Joshua Fields MilMilburn and T. K Coleman. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you, Malabama. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:46.3 | Today we are joined by Colin Wright. |
| 0:49.1 | Colin is the man who introduced Nicodemus and me to minimalism way back in 2009. |
| 0:56.6 | He is the author of 40 books including his brand new book How to Turn 39, Thoughts About Aging for People of All Ages. |
| 1:07.2 | He's also the host of two of my favorite podcasts, Brain Lenses, and Let's know things. |
| 1:13.2 | Coming up on this free public minimal episode, |
| 1:15.8 | a caller has a question about the ugly pressure |
| 1:19.0 | that our culture puts on women to look youthful as if aging is bad or evil. |
| 1:26.0 | And we've got a lightning round question about whether your 15 year old self would be |
| 1:30.6 | impressed by your current self. |
| 1:32.2 | That's followed by our right here right now |
| 1:34.3 | segment. spoiler alert it's my birthday and I demand a birthday gift from you. And |
| 1:40.8 | then we've got a listener tip for you as well you can check out the full |
| 1:44.0 | maximal edition of episode 448 that's the full episode but we answer five |
| 1:49.2 | times the questions and we dive deep in the several simple living segments. |
| 1:53.0 | That private podcast episode is out right now |
| 1:55.6 | at Patreon.com slash the Minimalists. |
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