503 | I'd Rather Be Alone
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists speak with philosopher Peter Rollins about how increasing fragmentation and fear of others produces unnecessary enemies, the ways in which social anxiety makes it difficult to build a community, how products promise fulfillment yet give us dissatisfaction, and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
What do introverts understand that extroverts don't? (1:53)
What's missing from your community? (22:05)
Right Here, Right Now: Sunday Symposium and Zoom calls with The Minimalists. (44:57)
Listener Tip: Two tips for managing book clutter. (49:00)
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. |
| 0:09.0 | Every little thing you think that you need. |
| 0:24.8 | Every little thing you think that you need. |
| 0:29.4 | Every little thing that's just feeding your greed. |
| 0:33.9 | Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast, |
| 0:46.0 | where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life. |
| 0:48.3 | With Les, my name is Joshua Fields, Milburn, |
| 0:50.4 | and joining me here at Earthing Studios in beautiful West Hollywood, California |
| 0:53.0 | is my good friend T.K. Coleman. It's a beautiful day. |
| 0:57.0 | Today we're joined by everyone's favorite philosopher. Welcome back to the show, Peter Rollins. |
| 1:02.2 | Coming up on this free public minimal episode, a caller has a question about how social anxiety makes |
| 1:08.6 | her feel isolated. |
| 1:13.8 | And we've got a question about what's missing from your community? |
| 1:17.6 | That's followed by our right here, right now segment and a listener tip. |
| 1:22.1 | As always, you can check out the full two-hour maximal edition of this episode where we answer three times as many questions on Patreon. |
| 1:25.9 | The link is in the description. |
| 1:28.8 | By the way, big thanks to our patrons. Your support keeps our podcast 100% advertisement free because sing along at home, y'all. |
| 1:36.6 | Advertisements suck. Let's start with our callers. If you have a question or a comment for our show, |
| 1:41.8 | we would love to hear from you. Our phone number is 406-219-7-839, |
| 1:47.4 | or you can email a voice recording right from your phone to podcast at theminolists.com. Our first question |
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