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Podcast: 10% Happier with Dan Harris
Episode: Can Radical Decluttering Significantly Boost Your Happiness? | Bonus Conversation with The Minimalists
Description: Have you ever noticed that no matter how much shit you buy, it never really does it for you? There's always that next purchase. I'm no anti-capitalist, but I don't think it hurts to acknowledge the lie—or if you want to be generous, misunderstanding—at the core of the enterprise: that somehow acquisition will lead to lasting satisfaction. This insight about the limits of materialism is what animates my friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who together, are known as the Minimalists. Several years ago, they released a docu...