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“Shoulding All Over Ourselves”
🕑 Added 2021-08-26 12:05:01 +0000 UTCJoshua and Ryan discuss how to appropriately filter and address unsolicited advice, and they answer the following questions:
What is the illusion of ‘shoulds’ and prescriptions? (00:00)
How do I decide whose advice to listen to? (44:45)
Isn’t it that there’s not an advice epidemic, but, rather, an unqualified-advice epidemic? (49:06)
With regards to weight loss, how can I learn to be okay with the skin I’m in while also wanting to reduce? (54:05)
How do we appropriately address people who insist on giving unsolicited parenting advice? (59:01)
How can we better balance improving one’s self while also just letting go and having fun? (1:04:33)
LINKS
Article: No Prescriptions
Audiobook: Launching Rockets
Book: As a Decade Fades
Book: Love People, Use Things
Essay: Off-the-Rack Self-Righteousness
Essay: Packing Party
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MAXIMS
“The Truth does not require persuasion, coaxing, or coercion—it is the Truth whether you are convinced or not.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“There are no ‘shoulds’—only ‘coulds.’ —Ryan Nicodemus
“If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have freedom.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Progress is the enemy of perfection.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“When we understand the problem, the ‘how-to’ takes care of itself.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Ideologies cloud the truth.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Don’t search for advice; search for insight.” —Ryan Nicodemus
This Maximal episode corresponds with Minimal episode 302.
Comments
Emma
Thanks for sharing Will! We appreciate you.
Will Hart
Hey minimalists, First of all, sorry I can’t seem to add my photo to my account. Second, I kind of disagree with your statement about reacting to situations. I understand physically you can control your ability to react to situations. BUT! I feel like our reactions to things are part of our unique human identity’s. My impulse to be angry to something in comparison with someone else’s same impulse to remain calm is the thing that makes us different I feel. I understand what Josh was saying that it is technically it is something we can control, but I also feel becoming almost robotic when reacting goes against the human experience. Anyway huge fans guys, even if I disagree with some of your points, listening to your points keeps me interested in things I may haven’t of thought of. Will (from Sydney, Australia)
Emma
Thanks Pauline!
Pauline Slaven
Great discussions. Loved podcast thanks guys
