Podcast 277 | Unusual Living Arrangements

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus ·

In this episode of The Minimalists Podcast, Joshua and Ryan talk about alternative living options—communal living, throuples, combined families, long-term singlehood, nomadic living—with the CEO and cofounder of Nourish Balance Thrive, Christopher Kelly, and they answer the following questions:

  • What is ancestral health?
  • What has likely caused our overall decline in health?
  • Is our current status quo of living arrangements in detrimental conflict with the natural order?
  • How do people continue to help the paradigm of the nuclear family work?
  • How do we set appropriate boundaries with roommates and ensure those boundaries are not crossed to prevent theft, property damage, and tense co-living environments?
  • What is Christopher’s communal living arrangement?
  • Why did Christopher adopt his communal living arrangement?
  • How does Christopher manage living with several different families?
  • What is ‘helicopter parenting’?
  • What is your definition of “commune”?
  • What are the pros and cons of unusual living arrangements in cultures that wholly embrace them?
  • What does the “WEIRD” acronym represent?
  • How do you define “solitude”?
  • What is Joshua’s living arrangement?
  • What is the ‘sweet spot’ regarding how many people you can live with?
  • Who created the monogamous nuclear family?
  • At what point does a group become a cult?

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Joshua & Ryan’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • “Searching for ‘pros’ tethers us to the ‘cons.’” —Joshua Fields Millburn
  • “Unusual is usually ideal.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
  • “A genuine life doesn’t require someone else’s approval.” —Ryan Nicodemus

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