519 | Begin Again
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, The Minimalists host Sunday Symposium in Orange County.
Discussed in this episode:
Overplanning produces chaos. (08:00)
No one on their deathbed says they regret not accumulating more stuff. (17:57)
Hold on if it confers more benefits than letting go. (26:18)
Anything can be clutter if it gets in the way. (29:54)
Acceptance is nice, but needing acceptance is a prison. (32:39)
How do you define success for yourself? (39:00)
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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 | This podcast has bad words. |
| 0:09.0 | Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:23.6 | Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:28.6 | Every little thing that's just feeding your greed |
| 0:33.6 | Oh I bet that you'd be fine without it. |
| 0:39.3 | Yes, hello everybody. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast, where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful |
| 0:45.8 | life with less. |
| 0:47.4 | It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. |
| 0:50.4 | In fact, Earthing Studios is closed this week. |
| 0:54.1 | We're enjoying some time with our friends and family, but we didn't want to leave you hanging. We wanted to give you a gift at the end of the year. I think you're really going to enjoy this episode. This is an audio recording of one of our live events from earlier this year in Orange County. One of my favorite events that we did, it was really magical. |
| 1:13.6 | I want to share that magical experience with you here. |
| 1:17.8 | So TK. and I will be back here in studio next week. |
| 1:22.3 | But in the meantime, happy holidays, happy new year. |
| 1:26.3 | Enjoy this special episode live with the Minimalists. |
| 1:34.4 | Orange County. |
| 1:41.2 | Y'all showed up. |
| 1:43.8 | How many you came from outside of Orange County? |
| 1:47.1 | Ooh, a lot of you. Wow. Yeah. Sometimes you got to pop out and show them. |
| 1:52.7 | How many of you, this is your first Sunday symposium? Oh, wow. That's like half of you. That's amazing. Well, welcome to Sunday |
| 1:59.7 | symposium. You're welcome back to the next one |
| 2:01.7 | whenever that might be. We'll talk about that in a bit. Tika, I've been thinking a lot about |
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