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"30 Years of Friendship"
🕑 Added 2021-12-16 13:05:01 +0000 UTCPatreon Exclusive. Joshua and Ryan talk about lessons from their 30 years of friendship, as well as some of their failures from the past decade, and they answer the following questions:
When did you launch your website? (04:06)
What’s the harm in occasionally breaking the rules? (08:19)
Were there items you ever saved for special occasions? (14:43)
What are some of your personal failures over the past eleven years? (35:40)
How do you define “happiness”? (40:05)
Why do many people seek out chaos? (41:08)
What is the problem with happiness? (43:32)
What have been the best and worst parts of your friendship? (1:02:22)
What is your opinion regarding cloud storage and digital photography? (1:09:29)
Outside of minimizing physical stuff, what have you learned about minimizing the internal elements of life, like stress, depression, worry? (1:15:32)
Why is worry pointless? (1:15:53)
What are the two types of fear? (1:16:32)
Reflecting on the past eleven years, is there anything at the beginning you would change? (1:20:08)
What is “irrational confidence”? (1:22:05)
LINKS
Added Value: “2 A.M.”
App: Overcast
Article: Specialness Spirals
Book: Angels
Book: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
Book: Love People, Use Things
Class: How to Write Better
Essay: How to Start a Successful Blog in 2022
Essay: Our 21-Day Journey into Minimalism
Essay: The Sound of Life
Explore: Banksy
Explore: Van Gogh
Instagram: Mallory French
Instagram: Jordan Moore
Instagram: Podcast Shawn
Instagram: Jessica Williams
Instagram: Danny Unknwn
Instagram: Wove Arts
Instructions: RSS Feed
Podcast: Decade of Less
Podcast: John Deloney
Podcast: Hidden Clutter
Podcast: Luxury Items
Resources: The Minimalists
Subscribe: The Minimalists
Text: 937-202-4654
Tour: The Minimalists
Website: Beulah
MAXIMS
“To persuade someone is to unlove them.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“I’d rather empower someone than exert power over someone.” —Ryan Nicodemus
“The pursuit of pleasure obstructs happiness.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Too much order or too much chaos paralyzes us.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Our pursuit of happiness is making us miserable.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Death is the ultimate FOMO.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“To worry about something is to pray for something bad to happen in the future.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
This Maximal episode corresponds with Minimal episode 318.
Comments
Diana
Bravo!!!!!
Emma
The book ATMAMUN by Kapil Gupta is a solid place to start. -JFM
Bree Richey
In this episode, you mentioned value judgements and that things are neither “good” or “bad”. Can either one of you recommend a book that would better educate me on how we as humans form value judgements and how to avoid assigning them?
