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The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Finances, Home & Garden, Leisure, Mental Health, Minimalism, Contribution, Passion, Minimalists, Health & Fitness, Decluttering, Philosophy, Health, Relationships, Growth, Simple, Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists talk about communicating with people who are unwilling to change their minds, the qualities of productive conversation, finding ways to be happy without knowing your purpose, a simple approach to getting divorced, the proper way to identify a narcissist, being a minimalist when you enjoy buying new things, and much more.

Discussed in this episode:

How can I have conversations with people who aren’t interested in changing their mind? (2:03)

What makes a conversation productive? (16:56)

Right Here, Right Now: Our 20 favorite podcast episodes—and our next Sunday Symposium. (35:37)

Lister tip: Avoid buying things by saying “hell no” to nonessentials. (36:35)

Listen to the full Maximal episode on Patreon: patreon.com/theminimalists

Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast

Recorded at Earthing Studios.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Every little thing that you think that you think that you need
0:24.2	Every little thing you think that you need
0:28.6	Every little thing that's just feeding your greed
0:33.5	Oh I bet that you be fine without it.
0:41.0	Yes, hello everybody.
0:46.7	Welcome to the Minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.
0:56.3	My name is Joshua Fields Milburn and joining me here at Earthing Studios in West Hollywood, California, is my good friend T.K. Coleman in the building.
1:01.9	TK. This is going to be a good talk today because coming up on this free public minimal episode,
1:08.0	a caller has a question about the best ways to communicate with people who are unwilling to change their mind.
1:12.2	And then we've got a question about what makes a conversation productive?
1:16.4	That's followed by our right here, right now segment and a listener tip. You can check out the maximal edition of episode 496. That's the full two-hour episode where we answer three times
1:22.6	as many questions on Patreon. The link is in the description. When you subscribe, you can listen to our private podcast
1:28.6	episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Plus, you'll gain access to all
1:34.3	of our archives all the way back to our very first episode. That's a full decade of podcast archives.
1:41.4	By the way, big thanks to our patrons. Your support keeps our podcast 100%
1:46.0	advertisement free because sing along at home, y'all. Advertisement suck. Let's start with our
1:52.3	callers. If you have a question or comment for our show, we'd love to hear from you. Our phone numbers
1:56.0	406-219-7-839, or you can email a voice recording to podcast at theminimalists.com.
2:03.9	Our first question today is from Andy.
2:06.6	Hey, minimalists. This is Andy from West Palm and I'm a Patreon subscriber.
2:12.0	I'm curious to hear you discuss how you have conversations when facts don't seem to matter as much as ideals and beliefs.
2:21.0	Also, why should you continue to communicate when it seems to be that neither side is interested in the
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