The Minimalists' Gift Getting Rule
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Joshua and Ryan discuss the ideal approach to receiving gifts as a minimalist with author, podcaster, and pastor Erwin Raphael McManus. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/theminimalists
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| 0:00.0 | Da Minimists. |
| 0:02.0 | How do we maintain our focus, momentum, and motivation |
| 0:05.8 | throughout the minimalism cycle? |
| 0:08.5 | I keep thinking the purge will end, |
| 0:10.0 | but somehow new things always find their way |
| 0:12.4 | into our space, especially new gifts. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, we talked about the gift thing already, |
| 0:17.4 | a moment ago, in this episode, |
| 0:19.7 | but let's go a little bit deeper on the gift side of things. |
| 0:23.1 | So we have two rules in our book, |
| 0:24.9 | love people use things. |
| 0:25.8 | We have the minimalist gift giving rule, |
| 0:29.0 | and then we have the gift getting rule, |
| 0:30.9 | which is a weird thing to think about as a minimalist. |
| 0:32.6 | You have a gift getting rule. |
| 0:34.2 | And really, these are boundaries we set up |
| 0:36.2 | because if you're unhappy with the gifts that you get right now, |
| 0:39.4 | quite often that has to do with the fact |
| 0:41.5 | that you haven't communicated what you actually do want, |
| 0:43.4 | what would add value to my life? |
| 0:45.3 | People want to give you gifts, why? |
| 0:47.3 | Because not because gift giving is a love, language, |
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