460 | Overthinking
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists are joined by Amanda Montell, author of The Age of Magical Overthinking, to discuss information overload, thought clutter, and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
What habits will help me avoid being overwhelmed by information clutter? (2:03)
How does overplanning prevent us from executing our plans? (30:42)
When does research get in the way of creativity? (32:42)
Does too much imagination suppress our intuition? (37:04)
In our current age of unlimited information, how has overthinking affected you? (41:05)
When is The Minimalists’ next live event? (45:04)
Listener tip: How one listener deals with book clutter. (47:22)
Listen to the full Maximal episode on Patreon: patreon.com/theminimalists
Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast
Recorded at Earthing Studios.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast has bad words. Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:24.7 | Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:29.3 | 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 |
| 0:36.8 | it. You're listening to the minimalist podcast with Joshua Fields Milburn and T.K. Coleman recorded live at |
| 0:44.8 | Erthing Studios in sunny California. |
| 0:47.1 | Yes, thank you, Malabama. Hello everybody. Joining us in the studio today to help us |
| 0:52.2 | think less about overthinking |
| 0:54.3 | is our returning champion Amanda Monteel. Amanda is a writer, linguist, and host of |
| 0:59.7 | the podcast, Sounds Like a Cult. She is also the author of a new book, The Age of Magical |
| 1:05.9 | Overthinking. Coming up on this free public minimal episode, a caller has a question |
| 1:10.4 | about habits that might help her avoid information clutter. question about the |
| 1:13.7 | information clutter and we've got a lightning round question about the sneaky ways |
| 1:17.3 | that overthinking affects our everyday lives that's followed by our |
| 1:21.4 | right here right now segment and a listener tip you |
| 1:24.7 | could check out the maximal edition of episode four hundred and sixty that's the |
| 1:28.3 | full two-hour episode where we answer three times as many questions and we dive deep into several simple |
| 1:35.1 | living segments that private podcast is out right now at patreon.com slash |
| 1:39.9 | the minimalists your support keeps our podcast 100% advertisement free because sing |
| 1:46.7 | along at home y'all advertisement suck. Let's start with our callers if you |
| 1:51.3 | have a question or comment for our show. |
| 1:53.0 | We'd love to hear from you. |
| 1:54.0 | Our phone number is 406-219-7839 or you can email a voice recording right from your phone to |
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