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Matt D'Avella is a minimalist. He's also a photographer and film maker. He directed the documentary, MINIMALISM featuring The Minimalists, described in Wikipedia as "The Minimalists are American authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and public speakers Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who promote a minimalist lifestyle." My first exposure to this notion of minimalism was reading a blog by Leo Babauta, Zen Habits. I was reading Leo's stuff about productivity. He was living in Guam with wife and kids and life didn't seem all that ideal, but somewhere along the way Leo started questioning his lifestyle, including smoking. He began to shift his content into taking better care of himself. That included reducing clutter and things in his life that no longer made sense to him. Prior to his writing, I'd never heard the term "minimalism." The lifelong best friends - The Minimalists - took the lifestyle to a whole new level with their content. Somewhere along the way entered a guy named Joshua Becker, On Becoming Minimalist. Then Matt came along. I've followed all of them from their beginnings even though I didn't adhere to the life they were evangelizing. This all goes back to at least 2010 so I clearly wasted a whole bunch of time, but life gets in the way. For all of us. But that's no excuse! Part of this movement is steeped in revolution. A revolution against consumerism, sales and marketing, consumption and perhaps capitalism itself. But as a guy who has followed this movement since the beginning, it mostly seems steeped in questioning, "What do I value? What do I value most?" That's why I continue to follow it more closely than probably any other thing I've followed in the past decade. And I'm not coming from a place of sustainability, being green, being eco-friendly, reducing our carbon footprint or some other viewpoint focused on a doomsday perspective. The documentary shows 2 friends - The Minimalists - who came to this lifestyle through their own independent, yet congruent, paths. Success. Pursuing bigger money and more things. Broken relationships. Short-term pleasure that seemed to only result in longer-term pain, or void. I've personally found the principles espoused by all of these creators based on a pursuit much like mine here at Leaning Toward Wisdom. Growth, improvement, figuring it out and doing it better. Wiser. That's why you find all of them talking about things like living with less, eliminating debt, ditching the clutter, contentment, going small, enjoying more freedom, deepening relationships, refusing to be slaves to things. I know their message doesn't resonate with everybody, but I've watched the movement grow exponentially in the past 10-15 years. And it's not lost on me, as pointed out in the documentary, that is about the time we were just trying to come out of the 2008 crash when this movement began. I'm certain that event had something to do with the discontentment of many people, compelling the question, "What are we doing?" Questions are good. Questioning ourselves is wise. Well, to be more accurate...answering the questions we ask of ourselves is. For example, we hear this question frequently: "What's the worst thing that can happen?" Funny how rarely we ever hear an answer though. That's where the profit is - in the answer. What are we buying? Why? There are other worthwhile questions. Do we need it? What's the utility of it? Can we do without it? If we forego buying it, what will we really be missing - if anything? Since buying a new house and making two moves simultaneously - and juggling two living locations - we've experienced greater spending than ever. This is an unprecedented experience for us because we've never done anything like this. The spending hasn't been impulsive or frivolous though. And the overwhelming majority of the expenditures have been in things that will enhance life, enhance enjoyment and last years.
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Innehåll tillhandahållet av Randy Cantrell. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Randy Cantrell eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.
Matt D'Avella is a minimalist. He's also a photographer and film maker. He directed the documentary, MINIMALISM featuring The Minimalists, described in Wikipedia as "The Minimalists are American authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and public speakers Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who promote a minimalist lifestyle." My first exposure to this notion of minimalism was reading a blog by Leo Babauta, Zen Habits. I was reading Leo's stuff about productivity. He was living in Guam with wife and kids and life didn't seem all that ideal, but somewhere along the way Leo started questioning his lifestyle, including smoking. He began to shift his content into taking better care of himself. That included reducing clutter and things in his life that no longer made sense to him. Prior to his writing, I'd never heard the term "minimalism." The lifelong best friends - The Minimalists - took the lifestyle to a whole new level with their content. Somewhere along the way entered a guy named Joshua Becker, On Becoming Minimalist. Then Matt came along. I've followed all of them from their beginnings even though I didn't adhere to the life they were evangelizing. This all goes back to at least 2010 so I clearly wasted a whole bunch of time, but life gets in the way. For all of us. But that's no excuse! Part of this movement is steeped in revolution. A revolution against consumerism, sales and marketing, consumption and perhaps capitalism itself. But as a guy who has followed this movement since the beginning, it mostly seems steeped in questioning, "What do I value? What do I value most?" That's why I continue to follow it more closely than probably any other thing I've followed in the past decade. And I'm not coming from a place of sustainability, being green, being eco-friendly, reducing our carbon footprint or some other viewpoint focused on a doomsday perspective. The documentary shows 2 friends - The Minimalists - who came to this lifestyle through their own independent, yet congruent, paths. Success. Pursuing bigger money and more things. Broken relationships. Short-term pleasure that seemed to only result in longer-term pain, or void. I've personally found the principles espoused by all of these creators based on a pursuit much like mine here at Leaning Toward Wisdom. Growth, improvement, figuring it out and doing it better. Wiser. That's why you find all of them talking about things like living with less, eliminating debt, ditching the clutter, contentment, going small, enjoying more freedom, deepening relationships, refusing to be slaves to things. I know their message doesn't resonate with everybody, but I've watched the movement grow exponentially in the past 10-15 years. And it's not lost on me, as pointed out in the documentary, that is about the time we were just trying to come out of the 2008 crash when this movement began. I'm certain that event had something to do with the discontentment of many people, compelling the question, "What are we doing?" Questions are good. Questioning ourselves is wise. Well, to be more accurate...answering the questions we ask of ourselves is. For example, we hear this question frequently: "What's the worst thing that can happen?" Funny how rarely we ever hear an answer though. That's where the profit is - in the answer. What are we buying? Why? There are other worthwhile questions. Do we need it? What's the utility of it? Can we do without it? If we forego buying it, what will we really be missing - if anything? Since buying a new house and making two moves simultaneously - and juggling two living locations - we've experienced greater spending than ever. This is an unprecedented experience for us because we've never done anything like this. The spending hasn't been impulsive or frivolous though. And the overwhelming majority of the expenditures have been in things that will enhance life, enhance enjoyment and last years.
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