Beyond Stuff, What Have The Minimalists Learned About Minimizing Internal Clutter?
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Joshua and Ryan talk about minimizing stress, depression, and worry. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/theminimalists
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| 0:00.0 | What if you learned so far about minimizing the internal elements of life, like stress, |
| 0:15.1 | depression and worry? |
| 0:16.9 | So to worry about something is simply to pray for something bad to happen in the future. |
| 0:23.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.8 | This question makes me think about how I already talked about why worrying is kind of pointless. |
| 0:30.8 | I mean, to worry is a symptom. |
| 0:34.1 | So if you're worrying about something, I can look at it and like say, okay, is this a symptom |
| 0:39.0 | of something I need to bring my attention or my resources towards? |
| 0:44.0 | Or is it something I can't control? |
| 0:46.5 | And if it's something I can't control, then I have certainly learned to declutter that |
| 0:51.9 | worry. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.9 | And this is often a sign that something is a miss. |
| 0:59.6 | Now usually that something has to do with our expectations. |
| 1:03.3 | There are two types of fear. |
| 1:04.6 | There's a real fear which is present and immediate danger. |
| 1:07.9 | This is the only type of fear that hunter-gatherers have. |
| 1:11.0 | The Hodza or the Mesaie, if a bear breaks through that door and comes in the room right |
| 1:17.4 | now, you and I are going to have real fear. |
| 1:20.2 | Yes. |
| 1:21.2 | Jordan isn't. |
| 1:22.2 | He's going to hold the bear to the ground. |
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