http://www.theminimalists.com/
About Joshua Fields Millburn
Born in 1981, I came into this world at the tail end of Generation X. I recently turned 30. I used to lead a large group of people in the corporate world, but I left my six-figure job to pursue my passions. Now I’m a full-time writer. I’ve written two bestselling non-fiction books with Ryan Nicodemus: Minimalism: Essential Essays and Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life. My first book of fiction, Falling While Sitting Down: Stories, recently reached #1 on Amazon’s Bestselling Short Stories list. And my first novel, As a Decade Fades, will be published in 2012. I also write essays with Ryan Nicodemus about minimalism and living a meaningful life with less stuff on this site. I think own less than 288 things (but I don’t actually count my stuff). I live in Dayton, Ohio. You can laugh at more photos of me here and connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Read more about me on my personal fiction site.
Ryan’s Comments About Joshua
I’ve known Josh since the fifth grade. I’m younger by six months (note from Joshua: actually it’s less than four months, but who’s counting?), and as long as I’ve known him I’ve been the more attractive one (another note from Joshua: sadly, this is true). Even though I’m the one that’s always gotten the hotter girl (Joshua: this is not true though), we’ve managed to stay friends. I’m happy that Josh is my friend. Together, we have an ability to make anything happen when we put our minds to it. We bring out each other’s strengths, and we keep each other motivated. My favorite memory of Josh is the first time I saw him eat an entire 10 pack of White Castles at age 10 (Joshua: I don’t remember this, but I’ll take your word for it. I was a fat kid, after all). Oh, and he had a mullet until he was 12 years old (Joshua: unfortunately I can’t deny this fact, mainly because there are pictures to prove it).
About Ryan Nicodemus
Hi, my name is Ryan and I like sandwiches (among other things). I was born in 1981 in Knoxville, Tennessee. My family moved around a lot when I was young, but we eventually ended up in Ohio (by way of upstate New York) when I was eight. Three states in eight years. I could go on, but you probably don’t care. I have a ton of hobbies, like volleyball, snowboarding, wake boarding, etc. Professionally, I had it made in the corporate world. I was living “the corporate dream” until I was laid off unexpectedly. But that was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Now I’m living a meaningful life with less stuff and pursuing my passions. I’ve written two non-fiction books with Joshua Fields Millburn: Minimalism: Essential Essays and Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life. If you like interesting/funny updates, follow me on Twitter and Google+.
Joshua’s Comments About Ryan
I’m fairly certain Ryan will not approve of any of the follow “facts” about his life. Ryan is the same age as me, although he was born a few months after I was (he looks much older than me though). We have nearly identical thought processes, but we are almost completely different people: I’m a bit OCD, Ryan is a bit ADD; I’m an introvert who loves time alone, Ryan is an extrovert who loves to be around people; I’m 6’2″, and Ryan is … well, he’s less than six-feet tall. We have a lot of similarities though: we both had difficult childhoods, we both know how to effectively lead people and successfully run a business, we are both tremendously passionate people. This will sound sentimental, but Ryan is the best person I know. He is habitually honest, caring, loving, and passionate. Oh, and he likes turtles and Wendy’s coffee and watching the evening news. I’m extremely grateful we’re friends.
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life is our finest, most important creation to date. It’s also the best thing we’ve ever written about Minimalism and will likely serve as the cornerstone to our work for years to come. It took us a year to write this book—a year of creating the best material possible and finding ways to relate it back to our lives so you would have practical ways to relate the subject matter to your life.
Chapter Themes:
Do you jump out of bed every morning excited about the day in front of you? Do you live a life defined by deep meaning, endless passion, excellent health, empowering relationships, and constant growth?
You can.
Ultimately, the eight chapters and ninety-eight sections inside this book are meant to help you take small actions each day that will radically improve your life over a short period of time.
This book’s foreword and first chapter go into vast detail on our personal backgrounds, our troubled pasts, our depression, and how we made changes that transformed our lives over two years. These chapters discuss why didn’t feel fulfilled by our careers and why we turned to our society’s idea of a meaningful life: we bought stuff, we spent too much money, and we lived paycheck to paycheck trying to purchase happiness in every trip to the shopping mall or luxurious vacation we could find. Instead of finding our passion, instead of searching for our mission, we pacified ourselves with ephemeral indulgences, inducing a crack-cocaine high that didn’t last far past the checkout line.
The subsequent chapters move on the the five dimensions that comprise a meaningful life:
1. Health
2. Relationships
3. Passions
4. Growth
5. Contribution
These are the things we changed in our lives that had the most impact. These changes resulted in more meaningful lives for the two of us. These five chapters discuss each of these concepts in depth, much more than our website. Throughout these chapters we consider why these areas are the most important dimensions of our lives and how minimalism allowed us to focus on these areas. We give you personal examples of how we changed everything in our lives over two year span. We left our big corporate jobs, changed our diets, started exercising regularly, got healthy, strengthened our core relationships, made great new relationships, started pursuing our passions, contributed to more people than we ever had, and found ways to be happy and content with our lives.
The final chapter of this book, "The Confluence of Meaning," binds together the five dimensions and asks the reader important questions about their life. These questions are not rhetorical, they are meant to make you think. The entire book is designed to help you actively engage in each chapter by reading the content more than once, taking notes, highlighting meaningful passages, making lists, and, most importantly, taking action.
發表於2024-11-27
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這本書,咋說呢,類似心靈雞湯的東西吧 這本書一直在告訴我們,他們兩個人是如何如何從成功人士變身成為極簡人士,過著極簡主義的生活,而且生活的非常好 作者一直一直在強調,他們曾經拿著六位數的薪金,有豪車有豪宅有數不清的奢侈品 我真的是挺不喜歡這樣的一直在重復復述過...
評分 評分在物質豐足且物欲繁盛的當代社會,隨著年歲的增長,人們往往會陷入一種迷思的睏境之中,感到生活的壓力纍積得不堪重負,快樂成為短暫的麻醉劑,時效一過又重新陷入瞭焦慮緊張壓抑的情緒鏇渦。 極簡主義如同一劑良藥,成為瞭眼下熱門詞語。伴隨“極簡主義”而來的幾個概念,有斷...
評分如果說極簡主義者的身邊物件少, 傢徒四壁的窮人是不是極簡主義者? 一貧如洗的流浪漢是不是極簡主義者? 一把吉他浪跡天涯的歌手是不是極簡主義者? 如果說極簡主義者重在精神追求, 藏書過萬的讀書人是不是極簡主義者? 收集標本的博物學傢是不是極簡主義者? 名畫滿廊的欣賞...
評分小時候看《射雕英雄傳》,周伯通教郭靖武功,一套空明拳。第一招:空碗盛飯。第二招:空屋住人。講瞭一大通:空最大,空最牛,一個實心碗啥也裝不瞭,一個空心碗纔能盛水裝飯。 那時候覺得周伯通有點道理,但大部分還是金庸為瞭配閤他好玩的個性鬍編的。現在卻覺得不是這樣。 ...
圖書標籤: 極簡生活 極簡主義 個人管理 英文原版 生活 極簡 成長 個人提升
後麵有點雞湯。看看前麵兩人的故事,記住五個value就好瞭
評分仿佛這類人‘不工作’就可以生活。非常小資啊...典型勵誌書,沒什麼營養。打雞血用的。
評分這本一般,隨便讀讀就好,沒有這倆人的廣播有意思。
評分#現在齣書的標準也是越來越低瞭。其實如果對minimalism的想法感興趣的話,看netflix的電影就好瞭。這與其說是書,更像是說明書,對如何成為一個minimalist做一個不科學的解釋(很多鍛煉,飲食的理解真的難以苟同)。推薦大傢還是不要浪費時間看這個瞭。
評分#現在齣書的標準也是越來越低瞭。其實如果對minimalism的想法感興趣的話,看netflix的電影就好瞭。這與其說是書,更像是說明書,對如何成為一個minimalist做一個不科學的解釋(很多鍛煉,飲食的理解真的難以苟同)。推薦大傢還是不要浪費時間看這個瞭。
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載