The Minimalist Mindset: The Practical Path to Making Your Passions a Priority and to Retaking Your Freedom

127 Pages·2017·0.86 MB·English

by  Danny Dover

THE MINIMALIST MINDSET
DANNY DOVER
CONTENTS
Sources
A Better Way
1. The Cave
2. It Starts with a Story
3. How Does One Live Life Well?
4. Addition Isn’t Possible Without Subtraction
A Habit Buffet
5. All You Can Eat Habits
6. Money
7. Time
8. Work
9. Housing
10. Transportation
11. Communication
12. E-mail
13. Mobile Phone
14. Objects
15. Books
16. Photos
17. Computers
18. Clothing
19. Travel
20. Gifts
21. Food
22. Exercise
23. Friends
24. Significant Others
25. Family
Making These Habits Your Habits
26. Actions
27. Projects
28. Repetition
But Why?
29. Why Are You Here?
30. Learning from Those Who Don’t Know
Afterword
THE MINIMALIST MINDSET

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SOURCES
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S SUCH SOURCES AND CITATIONS ARE LISTED BELOW BY CHAPTER
Chapter 1: The Cave
Not Applicable
Chapter 2: It Starts With a Story
1. “Life List,” published March 18, 2011, https:// www.lifelisted.com/lifelist

2. “Life List Progress,” published March 18, 2011, https://
www.lifelisted.com/lifelist
Chapter 3: How Does One Live Life Well
3. ”Powerful Goodness” was Benjamin Franklin’s way of referring to God. He
was a man of faith but didn’t care for the work of most of the preacher’s he
encountered.

4. “Life at Chartwell,” Access Date February 7, 2009 http://
www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm? pageid=380 (page
discontinued)

5. “Daily Routines,” Mason Currey, published March 19, 2013, accessed July 18
2016, http:// dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/
Chapter 4: Addition Isn’t Possible Without Subtraction
Not Applicable
Chapter 5: All You Can Eat Habits
Not Applicable
Chapter 6: Money
6. You are likely going to see a lot of expenses in these statements and you
might not feel great about all of them. This is perfectly normal! When I did this
exercise, I saw 15 iTunes purchases of Taylor Swift songs. (T-Swift totally gets
me!) That many individual purchases was the equivalent of 3 months of Apple
Music, which offers unlimited songs.

7. In this equation 100 is an arbitrary weight.

8. See https://www.lifelisted.com/min under the heading “Financial Resources”
for the most up-to-date resource for converting gift cards into cash.

9. “Chase Bank Reviews & Ratings,” Access Date July 13, 2016,
https://www.nerdwallet.com/banking/banks-credit- unions/chase

10. “US Inflation Gains in September,” US Inflation Calculator, published
October 18, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016,
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/usinflation-gains-in-september-
annual-rate-near-2-year-high/10002085/
Chapter 7: Time
11. “Quantifying the Cost of Context Switch,” Chuanpeng Li, Chen Ding, and
Kai Shen, accessed July 13, 2016, http://
www.cs.rochester.edu/u/cli/research/switch.pdf
Chapter 8: Work
12. “About Joel,” Joel Runyon, published September 11, 2016, accessed
November 10, 2016, http:// impossiblehq.com/about-joel/
Chapter 9: Housing
Not Applicable
Chapter 10: Transportation
13. “2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates,” United States
Census Bureau, accessed November 10, 2016,
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/ pages/productview.xhtml?
pid=ACS_14_1YR_DP03&prodType=table

14. “The True Cost of Commuting,” Mr. Money Moustache, published October
6, 2011, accessed November 10, 2016,
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-commuting/

15. “Long Distance Commuters Get Divorced More Often,” Erika Sandow,
Umeå University, published May 24, 2011, accessed November 10, 2016,
http://www.samfak.umu.se/ english/about-the-
faculty/news/newsdetailpage/long-distancecommuters-get-divorced-more-
often.cid160978
Chapter 11: Communication
Chapter 11: Communication
Not Applicable
Chapter 12: E-mail
Not Applicable
Chapter 13: Mobile Phone
Not Applicable
Chapter 14: Objects
Not Applicable
Chapter 15: Books
Not Applicable
Chapter 16: Photos
Not Applicable
Chapter 17: Computers
16. “Password Statistics: The Bad, the Worse and the Ugly,” Carly Okyle,
Entrepreneur, June 3, 2015, accessed July 27, 2016,
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246902
Chapter 18: Clothing
17. If you don’t trust your memory to remember if you have worn something in
12 months, consider turning all of the clothes you plan on keeping inside-out and
only correcting them when you have worn them. This way, when you do this
exercise again in the future, you will easily be able to see which clothes you
have not worn as they will be inside-out.