
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
The Minimalists' first short book: the five values of health, relationships, passion, growth and contribution, and how removing excess makes room for them. It is brief, earnest and introductory, written before they refined the message.
Read it if…
you want the shortest introduction to their philosophy.
Skip it if…
you have read Love People, Use Things; it supersedes this.
Three things you will actually use
- Minimalism is a tool for meaning.
- Five values: health, relationships, passion, growth, contribution.
- Remove excess to make room.
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Our verdict
Brief introduction.
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