The chapter explores a listener's dilemma about balancing personal enhancements like eye surgery and tattoos with financial responsibility and minimalism as a student. It delves into the importance of being intentional with money and making trade-offs in decision-making, emphasizing the need to prioritize personal values and life goals when considering purchases.
The Minimalists discuss minimalist trade-offs, non-objects, pleasures that can’t be purchased, and more.
Discussed in this episode:
How do you decide between two things when you have the money for only one? (1:48)
What is your favorite pleasure that money can’t buy? (20:06)
Listener tip: The Imagination Library. (38:16)
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