Every little thing that you think that you think that you need, every little thing you think that you need, every little thing you think that you need, every little thing that's just feeding your greed, oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast.

I'm Joshua Fields Milburn, and I'm joined by T.K. Coleman here at Earthing Studios in West Hollywood, California.

This episode is going to be a special one. We are deviating from our standard format today

because we are joined by my favorite living philosopher, Dr. Kapil Gupta.

Together we're going to talk about letting go of nonsense,

the many ways humans waste their lives,

what happens when you minimize ambition, and much more.

That's page one.

Then we'll answer some listener questions with Dr. Gupta on page two and page three.

Dr. Capil Gupta, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you.

I wanted to start by telling you a story about the last time that T.K. Coleman was at my house up in Ohio, California. We were there working on a project together,

and he walked into my room. I have a small bookshelf there, some poetry books, some detective novels,

and a stack of Kapil Gupta books. And for whatever reason, T.K. walks into the room, and he walks up,

and he pulls one book off the shelf. He identified

this book, your most recent one. It's called Overcoming the World. And he pulled it off. And then I saw

him for about the next hour or two, just sitting in a chair mesmerized by the text of this book.

TK., what compelled you to grab that book off the shelf?

The title, man, it's a title that can be ignored.

People talk about overcoming things,

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