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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

815: Reasons I Don't Own a TV by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists shares why he doesn't own a TV. Episode 815: Reasons I Don't Own a TV by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists (Minimalism & Creative Pursuits). Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. The original post is located here: https://www.theminimalists.com/tv Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 815.

0:04.8

Reasons? I don't own a TV.

0:06.9

By Joshua Fields Millburn of the Minimalist.com and I'm Justin Mollick.

0:11.1

Happy Monday, welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast,

0:15.6

where I read you from some of the best blogs I can get permission from,

0:18.8

mostly covering personal development and minimalism on this show.

0:22.0

We cover a bunch of other topics in the Optimal Living Daily Podcast Network,

0:25.8

which includes four other shows.

0:27.8

Definitely subscribe to those if you like this one.

0:30.1

So today's post comes from the minimalist, who have a film that is streaming on Netflix

0:34.9

called Minimalism, a documentary about the important things.

0:37.9

I believe that's in all countries now.

0:39.8

You can find more info about it at minimalismfilm.com.

0:43.8

Ante's post is from Joshua Fields Millburn himself of the Minimalist.

0:47.6

So let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

0:50.7

Reasons I don't own a TV.

0:57.2

By Joshua Fields Millburn of the Minimalist.com.

1:01.3

What? You don't own a TV? Why?

1:04.3

That's the question I get often.

1:06.0

And the answer is simple, because I'd watch it a lot.

1:10.7

You see, I really enjoy television. It's easy to watch, it's passive,

1:15.2

it's entertaining at times, and I don't have to do much work,

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