[Bonus] How Minimalism Brought Me Freedom and Joy

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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I'm homeless. By choice. I wrote about it. And it turned into a debate. Now I'm sharing the discussion with you. My podcast listeners and answering your questions. "Does minimalism mean having no accomplishments?" "Does minimalism mean not having a lot of possessions?" "How do you deal with kids if you are a minimalist?" "What's the first step I should take? Should I throw things out?" This isn't something I usually do. Welcome to my experiment of the day. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.6	This is the James Altiger show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.4	So thanks for listening to a very special or experimental podcast of mine.
0:19.5	We're going to do an experiment today.
0:21.5	But first, this entire podcast really started as an experiment about two and a half years
0:26.5	ago.
0:27.5	I figured how many people who are personal heroes of mine in every area of life could I
0:35.4	just pick up the phone and call and have them answer any question I have for them.
0:40.7	So people ranging from Mark Cuban to Kulio to Amanda Palmer to Ariana Huffington to various
0:47.8	astronauts, I just wanted to pick up the phone and talk to them.
0:51.9	So that was an experiment still ongoing.
0:55.2	It's working out pretty well.
0:56.2	I'm really having such a fun time.
0:58.3	But now I wanted to try something new.
1:00.2	I wrote a post a couple of days ago about minimalism and what I really thought it was.
1:06.9	I don't really like when a lot of people who call themselves minimalist are just talking
1:11.0	about not having a lot of possessions or not living off the grid.
1:17.4	And I don't really relate to that as minimalism.
1:20.5	So I sort of view my own lifestyle as very minimalistic and I wrote about that.
1:26.3	And I got, I would say 90% positive reaction, but then about 10% extremely negative reaction.
1:35.0	So I asked, I first also want to introduce the producer of my podcast.
1:40.4	She has been incredibly helpful in booking all of my guests, helping to edit these podcasts,
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