538 | Out of Sight
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about the difficulties of podcasting, how our love for minimalism has changed over the years, what we dislike about decluttering, how to let go incrementally, and more.
Discussed in this episode:
A wise kid asks: Do you love minimalism? (4:16)
What do you love about minimalism? What do you hate about minimalism? (17:21)
Right Here, Right Now: Weekly writing tips from the How to Write Better Newsletter (33:48)
Listener Tip: How to let go incrementally. (35:10)
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Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Every little thing that you think that you think that you need |
| 0:24.2 | every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:28.6 | every little thing that's just feeding your greed |
| 0:33.5 | oh I bet that you you be fine without it. |
| 0:44.2 | Yes, the minimalists, Joshua Fields Milburn here, TK. Coleman over there. |
| 0:47.1 | We've got Savvy Dee and Professor Sean in the studio. |
| 0:51.7 | Joining us remotely, of course, Tom Kat and Audio Bin. |
| 0:54.2 | Spire Jeff and Dave, shout out to y'all. |
| 0:55.7 | TK., here's something to chew on. |
| 0:58.9 | Out of sight doesn't mean out of mind. |
| 1:02.4 | It means out of control. |
| 1:04.5 | What does that mean to you? |
| 1:14.5 | The things we often choose to look at have a way of haunting us from the shadows. And so just because you say, oh, I don't want to see this. I don't want to think about it. I'm going to suppress it or hide it |
| 1:18.9 | or conceal it. You tend to feel stressed out or anxious about it in other ways. It just kind of has a |
| 1:26.7 | way of welling up in the subconscious and robbing you of sleep |
| 1:29.5 | peace in other ways. |
| 1:30.8 | But if you choose to look at it, you may not get to feel good in the moment, but it's like |
| 1:35.5 | receiving that unwanted news from the doctor by acknowledging it, by looking at it, |
| 1:40.7 | even if that brings stress up front, you kind of know how to move for what you can do |
| 1:46.1 | about it, what your options are, and so on. I think about Tony Robbins, one of his, my favorite |
| 1:51.6 | quotes of his is kill Godzilla when he's a baby, don't wait until he's taking over the city. |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah. And I think that can be said with illness. And sometimes, well, I mean, we know that hoarding is a mental illness. It's on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. And we often look at hoarders in our TV and see a stage five hoarder. And it's easy to sort of sneer at them and say, oh, wow, look, at least I don't, I don't have that kind of a problem. It's like, how do you |
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