The Minimalists speak with Professor Thomas Seager about using ice baths to help minimize pain and chronic illness, uncomfortable activities that get easier over time, a slew of questions JFM has about cold plunge therapy, and much more.
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Discussed in This Episode
- How does a struggling person live a relatively productive life with chronic illness?
- What’s a previously uncomfortable activity that you now regularly do with ease?
- Right Here, Right Now: Joshua’s Top 10 Albums of 2025, Friday Afternoon Minimalist Zooms, and How to Write Better
- Listener Tip: Does Kapil Gupta need a hug?
- Rapid-fire questions about cold therapy
- What are your favorite simple-eating tips?
- Talkaboutable: iPad kids
- Sucky Ad: The side effects are often worse than the disease
- Added Value: A track from Joshua’s favorite album of 2025
Minimal Maxims
Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.
- Pain is a request for healing.
- The hard way isn’t always the healthy way.
- Discomfort is the cost of growth.
- Peace is buried beneath the clutter.
- Pleasure is not the point of our provisions.
- Minimalism is the art of addition through subtraction.
Links Mentioned in This Episode
- Added Value: “Go Baby”App: dminder
- Book: The Little Book of Demons
- Book: Man’s Search for Meaning
- Book: Uncommon Cold
- Book: Uncommon Testosterone
- Counseling: Clutter Counseling
- Course: How to Write Better
- Instagram: Thomas Seager
- Essay: The Sound of Life
- Event: FAMZ
- Podcast: Minimize Fat
- Podcast: Minimizing Chronic Pain
- Podcast: Nonsense
- Podcast: Toxic Superfoods
- Watch: Sucky Ad
- Watch: Talkaboutable
- Website: My Green Lamp
- Website: Morozko Forge
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- T.K. Coleman
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- Cat Remaks
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