Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

by Joshua Fields Millburn

“There is more joy and fulfillment in pursuing less than can be found in pursuing more.”

McQueen wasn’t stylish because he had two closets full to the gunwales; he was stylish because he was confident and simple.

person must be willing to drudge through the drudgery to find the joy on the other side.

Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.

“Sit in the chair?” “That’s right. Even if you don’t write, hell even when you don’t wanna write, plant your ass in the chair e’ery day for a couple hours. Over time, the words will come.”

These four words—sit in the chair—ended

Transference—leveraging one’s current skillsets and transferring those skills to new endeavors.

Adding Value surely doesn’t sound as sexy as Going Viral, but it’s the only way to gain long-term buy-in, and it’s one of the few ways to build trust.

around the world, they had to earn the calluses on their fingertips. What you perceive as overnight success is, in fact, everything after—after the tedium of repeated failures, after the monotony of writing twelve hours a day, after drudging through the drudgery,