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🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The Minimalists talk about the difference between minimalism and renunciation, and they explore the unforeseen downsides of renouncing things.
Discussed in this episode:
What’s the best way to avoid purchasing things that will soon be junk? (2:48)
What topping should never go on pizza? (23:03)
Listener tip: Make your phone more boring to make it more useful. (43:14)
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Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast
Recorded at Earthing Studios.
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0:00.0 | Every little thing that you think that you think that you need. |
0:24.8 | Every little thing you think that you need. |
0:29.5 | Every little thing that's just feeding your greed. |
0:33.9 | Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it. |
0:47.2 | You're listening to The Minimalist Podcast with Joshua Fields Milburn and T.K. Coleman, recorded live at Erthing Studios in Sunny, California. |
0:56.7 | Yes, thank you, Malabama. Hello, everybody. Sunny indeed, although just yesterday I was going out for a little hike and there was snow on top of the mountains because it, I guess it was rained for a day and the snow |
1:02.6 | and oh hi was there. And man, was it beautiful. And two days before that it was 84 degrees. So |
1:08.5 | amazing weather. Greetings from california thank you |
1:13.4 | malabama hello everybody today we're talking about the many ways in which minimalism is different from |
1:19.8 | the act of renouncing your things we often confuse the two we're going to talk about that |
1:24.6 | we're also going to talk about and explore the unforeseen |
1:28.1 | downsides of renunciation. So coming up on this free public minimal episode, a caller has a question |
1:33.9 | about foregoing impulse purchases that will soon turn into junk. And then we've got a funny but |
1:41.0 | insightful question about the toppings that definitely don't belong on a pizza. |
1:47.3 | That's followed by our right here, right now segment and a listener tip. |
1:50.9 | You can check out the maximal edition of episode 483. |
1:54.4 | That's the full two-hour episode where we answer three times as many questions over on Patreon. |
2:00.4 | The link is in the description. |
2:02.2 | When you subscribe, you can listen to our private podcast episodes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify |
2:07.2 | or whatever your favorite podcast app is. |
2:10.0 | Plus, you'll gain access to all of our archives all the way back to episode Zero, |
2:14.3 | One. |
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