Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

by Joshua Fields Millburn

I know I might fail, but we all must fail from time to time—we have to figure out what doesn’t work so we can find out what does.

“Now, before I spend money I ask myself one question: Is this worth my freedom? Like: Is this coffee worth two dollars of my freedom? Is this shirt worth thirty dollars of my freedom? Is this car worth thirty thousand dollars of my freedom? In other words, am I going to get more value from the thing I’m about to purchase, or am I going to get more value from my freedom?