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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.
'The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned
material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and
use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but
about how to live more deeply and more fully.' Jay Shetty, #1 New
York Times bestselling author of Think Like a Monk 'Joshua and Ryan
have penned an urgent manifesto for the growing movement away from
the material and towards the meaningful. An important book for our
current moment.' Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of
A World Without Email and Digital Minimalism AS SEEN ON THE NETFLIX
DOCUMENTARIES MINIMALISM & LESS IS NOW How might your life be
better with less? Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less
clutter, less stress and debt and discontent - a life with fewer
distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more
meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and
contentment - a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of
the chaotic world around you. What you're imagining is an
intentional life. And to get there, you'll have to let go of some
clutter that's in the way. In Love People, Use Things, Joshua
Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus move past simple decluttering to
show how minimalism makes room to reevaluate and heal the seven
essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money,
values, creativity and people. They use their own experiences?and
those of the people they have met along the minimalist journey?to
provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life.
Because once you have less, you can make room for the right kind of
more.
People don't know how to love the ones they love until they
disappear from their lives. As he approaches thirty, Jody Grafton's
career as a singer-songwriter falls apart: he loses his record
deal, his money, his fame-even his desire to create new music.
While he stares at the rubble of his one-hit-wonder musical career,
his mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, his marriage ends
abruptly, and Jody starts drinking heavily to deaden his new
reality. When he hasn't a single reason left to live, he attempts
suicide and ends up in a psych ward where he's prodded with
questions he isn't yet prepared to answer. Amid the tailspin, Jody
receives a phone call from his recently estranged girlfriend and
she has unexpected news: she's pregnant. As a Decade Fades begins
with this phone call. As his twenties twilight, Jody Grafton
grapples with loneliness, depression, lust, and infatuation while
glancing at the mounting wreckage in his rearview. When he can't
fit-or force-the pieces of his life back together, he leaves his
native Ohio to search for answers in the most unlikely of places:
Bed-Stuy Brooklyn.
At age 30, Joshua and Ryan left their six-figure corporate jobs at
age 30 to pursue more meaningful lives. MINIMALISM: ESSENTIAL
ESSAYS highlights essays from the first nine months of their
journey into minimalism. MINIMALISM: ESSENTIAL ESSAYS is an edited
collection of 29 of The Minimalists' favorite essays about living a
more meaningful life with less stuff. This collection also contains
a special forward by Joshua and Ryan, as well as two bonus essays
you can't find anywhere else: "Dealing with Overwhelm"and"Focus On
What's Important." The book is organized into seven interconnected
themes: Living in the Moment, Emotional Health, Growth,
Contribution, Taking Action, Passion and Mission, andChange and
Experimentation. Theorder of this collection is deliberate; it is
meant to be read from beginning to end. Doing so will result in a
better overall experience-a different experience from reading these
essays all over the web-connecting various concepts that might
otherwise seem unconnected.
"Like Henry David Thoreau, but with Wi-Fi." -Boston Globe What if
everything you ever wanted isn't what you actually want?
Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields
Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he
didn't anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his
marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every
aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally
discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism...and everything started
to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has
embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more
substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American
Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off
loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure
career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to
book but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching,
surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let
go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending,
uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered
with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan
Nicodemus, Millburn's best friend of twenty years.
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