Goodbye, Things
On Minimalist Living
Fumio Sasaki
Translated by Eriko Sugita
Having read it
★★★★☆
An enlightening read and I’ve taken some of its suggestions on board, giving a feeling like more progress can be made with some of my personal endeavours.
Minimalism is just a tool, but certainly feels like a more important one, certainly now.
A good passage
I’ve also heard that we humans are like pieces of hardware that haven’t changed for fifty thousand years. Think about all the changes just since the Edo period four centuries ago, and then consider that we’re coping with all that with a brain that’s fifty thousand years old!
It isn’t as if a company like Apple can come up with a clever innovation say to us one day: ‘...Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for – introducing “iHuman2”!’
A second good passage
For a minimalist, the objective isn’t to reduce, it’s to eliminate distractions so they can focus on the things that are truly important. Minimalism is just the beginning. It’s a tool. Once you’ve gone ahead and minimised, it’s time to find out what those important things are.
A third good passage
Minimalism is built around the idea that there’s nothing that you’re lacking. You’ll spend less time being pushed around by something that you think you may be missing.