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The Minimalists

Our Goals Lead to Disappointment

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss how an obsessive focus on goal attainment can actually steer us away from the the values we’re driving toward with author, podcaster, and professor Kate Bowler. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/theminimalists



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0:00.0

Da Minimists.

0:03.0

How do I balance positivity and disappointment?

0:06.4

I'm trying to live with contentment

0:08.3

after some dreams fell apart,

0:09.6

but I also feel like I have zero goals

0:13.0

and I don't know where to derive them from.

0:17.4

Okay, this might be,

0:18.8

I don't know whether or not we have the same view on this,

0:21.8

but I'm really interested to hear

0:22.9

because the feeling as though I need to have goals,

0:27.9

that brings us back to the bucket list thing.

0:30.2

Bucket list is just another way to say goal,

0:32.2

life goals, substantial goals, experiential goals.

0:38.7

Yeah.

0:39.6

We don't have to have goals,

0:41.9

but you don't also have to not have goals either.

0:45.4

Right.

0:46.4

Yeah, and sometimes we get energy and direction

0:49.4

and momentum on our life when not even when we're,

0:52.2

when we take a minute to not worry about being positive,

0:55.3

to really get a clearer sense of what we feel called to do,

1:00.9

where we feel energy,

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