What Is the Root Cause of Clutter?
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Joshua and Ryan discuss our ‘why’ of cluttering. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/theminimalists
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| 0:00.0 | Dominimists. |
| 0:03.0 | What is the root cause of this declutter slash |
| 0:06.8 | reclutter cycle? |
| 0:08.1 | Oh, I love this question. |
| 0:10.7 | So what is the root cause? |
| 0:12.9 | This is so much more important than asking questions about |
| 0:16.3 | how do I declutter? |
| 0:18.3 | Because if we don't know, in fact, what did we say |
| 0:20.8 | in our most recent film? |
| 0:23.0 | If you don't understand why you're decluttering, |
| 0:25.6 | your cause it will be recluttered |
| 0:27.5 | in the not too distant future. |
| 0:29.7 | It's the reason that Ryan and I don't make a video |
| 0:32.5 | about the 67 ways to declutter your closet. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.4 | Because if we did, you declutter your closet. |
| 0:38.9 | You'd fold all your shirts the right way or whatever. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.6 | And you'd feel great for a week or a month. |
| 0:44.9 | And then all of a sudden, you turn around a year from now |
| 0:47.3 | and it'd be worse than what it was before |
| 0:49.3 | with a whole bunch of new items and an empty bank account |
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