Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

von Joshua Fields Millburn und Ryan Nicodemus

Neben dem Ratgeber „Minimalismus“ sind noch weitere Bücher der „The Minimalists“ erschienen. „Everything that remains“ ist dabei weniger Sachbuch mit Rat und Tat, sondern ein Erfahrungsbericht, in dem Joshua Fields Millburn seinen Weg vom Dasein als Angestellter eines Konzerns – so richtig mit Firmenwagen und Hypothek – hin zu einem der wichtigsten Botschafter des Minimalismus erzählt. Gewürzt mit Kommentaren und Seitenhieben seines langjährigen Freundes und Weggefährten Ryan Nicodemus. Millburn erzählt in vielen Geschichten und Anekdoten über seine Beweggründe, Erfahrungen und Gewinne durch den Minimalismus. Eine packende Geschichte, die gut geschrieben ist. Leider bislang nur in englischer Sprache.

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Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism…and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn’s best friend of twenty years.