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427 | Declutter Your Emotions

The Minimalists

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Optional baggage

Emotional clutter refers to optional baggage, which allows us to let go without blame or judgment. We should use insights about past choices to guide future decisions, rather than turning them against ourselves with self-condemnation. Self-help should focus on practical actions that reflect our highest values, rather than performing virtue for others. The key is to take ownership of our choices and make future decisions that align with the person we want to be.

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And in part, as I say, this is really driven by this idea that the path to kind of universal social mobility is to get everyone educated. And I think that's an illusion. And that, you know, there are other things we could spend that income on. One of the things we could do is just, we could just redistribute more money to people at the lower end of the income spectrum, rather than thinking that everything has to go through something like education. And so, you know, I'm here in Denmark now. Denmark is, I think, one of the most equal societies in the world. And it's quite impressive what they've actually achieved in Denmark. There's not a lot of homeless people. There's, you know, the state will provide for you. And, you know, the labor market seems to provide pretty well for people. The minimum wage is something like 20 or 25 pounds effectively in this society. of social policy that's actually very useful and very helpful. And that if we think that the things we have to spend on are stuff like education in order to improve social mobility, I think that can end
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up just a lot of waste of resources in this society.

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