“Shoulding All Over Ourselves” (Patreon)

Joshua and Ryan discuss how to appropriately filter and address unsolicited advice, and they answer the following questions:

What is the illusion of ‘shoulds’ and prescriptions? (00:00)

How do I decide whose advice to listen to? (44:45)

Isn’t it that there’s not an advice epidemic, but, rather, an unqualified-advice epidemic? (49:06)

With regards to weight loss, how can I learn to be okay with the skin I’m in while also wanting to reduce? (54:05)

How do we appropriately address people who insist on giving unsolicited parenting advice? (59:01)

How can we better balance improving one’s self while also just letting go and having fun? (1:04:33)

LINKS

Article: No Prescriptions

Audiobook: Launching Rockets

Book: As a Decade Fades

Book: Love People, Use Things

Essay: Off-the-Rack Self-Righteousness

Essay: Packing Party

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MAXIMS

“The Truth does not require persuasion, coaxing, or coercion—it is the Truth whether you are convinced or not.” —Joshua Fields Millburn

“There are no ‘shoulds’—only ‘coulds.’ —Ryan Nicodemus

“If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have freedom.” —Joshua Fields Millburn

“Progress is the enemy of perfection.” —Joshua Fields Millburn

“When we understand the problem, the ‘how-to’ takes care of itself.” —Joshua Fields Millburn

“Ideologies cloud the truth.” —Joshua Fields Millburn

“Don’t search for advice; search for insight.” —Ryan Nicodemus

This Maximal episode corresponds with Minimal episode 302.