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Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus — WisdomDeck honest review
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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.

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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

  1. Minimalism is a tool for meaning.
  2. Five values: health, relationships, passion, growth, contribution.
  3. Remove excess to make room.

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Our verdict

Brief introduction.

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