Kim Iversen on Minimalism in Politics

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss incorporating minimalism into politics with journalist and podcaster Kim Iversen. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	Da Minimists.
0:02.0	There is no minimalist rule book.
0:05.4	Well, until now, the minimalist have created 16 rules for living with less.
0:11.5	A free ebook, which you can download right now at TheMinimalists.com slash resources.
0:18.5	Enjoy.
0:23.5	Can you apply minimalism to politics?
0:25.3	We kind of talked about that a little bit.
0:26.5	But we did.
0:27.5	I just wanted to talk about the sort of minimalist presidency.
0:30.8	What would that look like?
0:31.8	I don't know whether or not you're a fan of Calvin Coolidge, but I do.
0:37.0	I'm a big fan of his values.
0:40.5	Whether or not he executed well on them, I actually think he probably didn't in his second
0:44.1	term because one of his kids died.
0:46.0	Anyway, we have this essay on our website.
0:48.1	Someone asks us about being the minimalist president.
0:50.8	I just wanted to read a few quotes from Calvin Coolidge.
0:53.0	So if will your question is about, could there be a minimalist president?
0:59.0	Well, I think the answer is, yeah, probably.
1:02.0	But I think, well, I mean, we don't need to do this right now, but I think that question
1:06.2	needs to define what minimalist president is.
1:09.0	Because when we asked that question on the shorter podcast, you were like, oh, that means
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