518 | All Black Everything
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists speak with philosopher Peter Rollins about why minimalists often wear black clothes, a few examples of emotional decluttering, the concept of "dopamine dressing," some tips for reducing social media scrolling, eight things Joshua's favorite writer tried to warn us about, and more.
Discussed in this episode:
What is an example of emotional decluttering? (5:28)
What's wrong with wearing all black? (26:03)
Right Here, Right Now: The Minimalists' 15th birthday and the final Sunday Symposium–for now. (48:57)
Listener Tip: A unique way to reduce scrolling. (1:08:07)
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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. |
| 0:24.8 | 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 be fine without it. |
| 0:45.7 | Yes, welcome to The Minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:54.3 | My name is Joshua Fields Milburn and joining me here at Earthing Studios and beautiful West Hollywood, California's my good friend T.K. Coleman. |
| 0:56.3 | Hey, man, let's job our loves today. |
| 1:03.8 | Maybe we can talk about that. That was quite the controversy this weekend when we were at Sunday Symposium. We have several surprises for you today. Ryan Nicodemus is going to be joining us |
| 1:10.0 | toward, well, later on page one |
| 1:11.9 | and also on page two. |
| 1:14.4 | But joining us in the studio today, |
| 1:16.3 | I stumbled into an Irishman |
| 1:18.1 | on the street in Ohio this weekend. |
| 1:21.6 | And I said, |
| 1:23.2 | can we keep him? |
| 1:24.8 | And here he is. |
| 1:26.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, |
| 1:26.8 | welcome back to the show, our returning |
| 1:28.2 | champion, Peter Rollins. Thank you, guys. I was wandering the lonely streets of Ohio, homeless in need, |
| 1:36.2 | and you brought me in, so thank you. Well, you know, you were doing this event with our mutual friend, |
| 1:42.5 | Rob Bell, and you were doing like a live podcast in Ohio, |
| 1:46.4 | and I brought my wife there. |
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