Love People, Use Things

Because the Opposite Never Works

By: Ryan Nicodemus, Joshua Fields Millburn

Narrated by: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

As seen on the Netflix documentaries Minimalism and Less Is Now.

How might your life be better with less?

Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent - a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment - a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you're imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you'll have to let go of some clutter that's in the way.

In Love People, Use Things, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus move past simple decluttering to show how minimalism makes room to re-evaluate and heal the seven essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money, values, creativity and people. They use their own experiences and those of the people they have met along the minimalist journey to provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life.

Because once you have less, you can make room for the right kind of more.

©2021 Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but about how to live more deeply and more fully." (Jay Shetty, number one New York Times best-selling author of Think Like a Monk)

Phenomenal!

I'm only on chapter 1 and I am beyond excited by how much value it has already added to my life!

At times hard to understand.

Largely just a motivational self-help book.

JFM has the tendency to use of flower words and sentencr structure and that can make it hard to understand at times.

Writing style looks good, sure.