At age 30, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus left their
six-figure corporate careers, jettisoned most of their material
possessions, and started focusing on life's most important aspects.
And they never looked back. This book's foreword and first chapter
examine Joshua and Ryan's backgrounds, their troubled pasts, and
their eventual spiral into depression. These chapters discuss why
the authors didn't feel fulfilled by their careers and why they
turned to society's idea of living: working ridiculous hours,
wastefully spending money, living paycheck to paycheck. Instead of
finding their passions, they pacified themselves with ephemeral
indulgences, inducing a cocaine-like high that didn't last far past
the checkout line. And then, after a set of life-changing events,
they discovered minimalism, which allowed Joshua and Ryan to
eliminate life's excess and focus on the essential things in life.
The subsequent chapters explore their journey into a lifestyle
known as minimalism and discusse why these two successful
businessmen eschewed their excess stuff in favor of focusing on
life's the more important aspects: health, relationships, passion,
growth, and contribution. The authors discuss how minimalism
allowed them to focus on each area, citing personal examples of how
they changed everything in their lives over a two year span, during
which time they left their corporate jobs, got out of debt, changed
their diets, started exercising regularly, strengthened their core
relationships, established exciting new relationships, began
pursuing their passions, contributed to more people, and found ways
to be content and happy with their lives. The final chapter,
Confluence of Meaning, binds together these five dimensions and
asks the reader important questions about his or her life. This
book's content is different from the content at TheMinimalist.com.
While the authors' website documents their journey into minimalism
and their continued growth through experimentation, this book
discusses minimalism in a different way: it discusses in great
depth the five dimensions of living a meaningful life. It also
gives the reader much more insight into the authors' personal
lives, into the painful events that led them to journey into
minimalism, and into their world outside the web.
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