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The Minimalists

Stop Fixing Yourself

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss how an obsession with self-improvement can cause more harm than good. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0

Dominimists.

0:03.0

How can we better balance improving oneself

0:06.2

while also just letting go and having fun?

0:10.0

I'm only 23 years old and I'm obsessed

0:12.4

with self improvement to the point

0:14.0

where it's not even fun anymore.

0:15.8

A self improvement ever fun.

0:17.5

Sorry, I'm even in a sequestient here.

0:19.2

Uh, with the diets and the consistent structure,

0:24.5

it's starting to feel like I'm being self-accated.

0:27.4

Yes.

0:28.4

Well, whenever you are trying to self-improve,

0:31.4

it's always going to bring some sort of like discomfort.

0:35.3

And in this case,

0:36.6

if Monica's bringing her misery,

0:38.6

now there's nothing wrong with misery.

0:41.0

If that's where you want to be, great.

0:43.2

Yeah, I think we, in a weird way,

0:45.4

I think we actually overvalue misery.

0:48.0

Yeah, because we all are trying to be miserable all the time.

0:52.4

We're seeking out discontent.

0:55.2

It's what you talked about earlier.

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