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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

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists speak with educator Isaac Morehouse about fixing our broken education system, asking family members to stop buying excess stuff, arguing with the people we love, and much more.

Discussed in this episode:

What can we do about our systemically broken education system? (02:00)

What’s the worst education advice you’ve ever heard? (19:23)

Right Here, Right Now: A special screening of the Food for Humans documentary. (44:30)

Listener Tip: Rules to reduce physical book clutter. (46:10)

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	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 you be fine without it.
0:40.6	Hello, everybody.
0:46.9	Welcome to the minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.
0:54.9	My name is Joshua Fields Milburn and joining me here at Earthing Studios in West Hollywood, California is my good friend T.K. Coleman.
1:00.4	Yo, yo, yo, yo. Today we're joined by Isaac Moorhouse. Isaac is the CEO of Open Ed,
1:05.9	which is an organization that is working to open up all education options to all learners.
1:12.3	He is also the author of a brand new book called Open Education. We've got a lot to talk about today. We'll get to our callers on page two. We have a bunch of them, but since Isaac is here in the studio, I thought
1:17.4	we'd move to our more about less segment from page three all the way up here to page one,
1:22.0	because I have a passage here that feels like the perfect way to start this episode. As always,
1:28.5	you can listen to the full two-hour maximal edition of this episode where we answer three times as many questions on
1:34.1	Patreon. The link is in the description. Big thanks to our patrons. Your support keeps our podcast
1:39.0	100% advertisement free because sing along at home, y'all. Advertisall advertisements suck and if you'd like to
1:46.9	have your question featured on our show give us a call our phone numbers 406-219 789-7839 or you
1:53.2	can email a voice recording to podcast at the minimalists.com now let's dive into this free public
2:00.0	minimal episode all right right, more about
2:02.7	less. Isaac, this is a segment that we typically do on page three. It's an article or a quote or a book,
2:10.3	something we read as a jump off point for discussion. What I have here in front of me is from one of
2:17.4	my favorite philosophers, thinkers.
2:20.8	His name is Jed McKenna. And the book is Jed Talks Volume 3. It's part of a trilogy,
2:26.3	although you don't have to read the first two to get this. And there's an essay in that book
2:30.3	about our broken education system. The essay itself is called Over the Moon, and I
2:35.9	tweezed out three paragraphs that I wanted to talk to you about. TK., take it away.
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