The Minimalists: Creating More with Less

Name: The Minimalists: Creating More with Less
Uploaded: 2023-08-31
Duration: 3681 s
Channel: Tiago Forte
Description: Read a transcript preview of “The Minimalists: Creating More with Less” from Tiago Forte, uploaded on 2023-08-31.

Channel: Tiago Forte

Uploaded: 2023-08-31

Duration: PT3681S

Read a transcript preview of “The Minimalists: Creating More with Less” from Tiago Forte, uploaded on 2023-08-31.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] my organization system is not very sexy

[0:03] the average American spends 12 hours on

[0:06] digital devices in fact I'd probably be

[0:08] more panicked without my phone than a

[0:10] kidney at least I have another kidney

[0:11] with me 30 funny cat pictures on

[0:13] BuzzFeed which seems so important I am a

[0:16] ridiculous person looking at ridiculous

[0:18] people I do not want to look at this I

[0:20] just go to my Flipboard and I can pull

[0:22] up something that I know it's going to

[0:23] take about 20 minutes to read and it's

[0:25] like that's my entertainment for that

[0:26] time TK you have taken the second brain

[0:28] red pill and it feels so good

[0:33] thank you

[0:37] [Music]

[0:43] so it's very surreal to be here you guys

[0:45] it is surreal I didn't tell you this I

[0:48] didn't tell any of you but I remember

[0:50] following your work maybe a decade ago

[0:53] no way when I was probably in college I

[0:56] saw that you could have an idea

[0:59] that that you believed in that was

[1:01] powerful that had an impact on you and

[1:03] then you could just decide without

[1:05] anyone you know blessing you or giving

[1:07] you some honorary title to just start

[1:10] spreading that message any way you could

[1:12] that completely blew my mind back when I

[1:15] was like you know 22 years old that's

[1:17] one of the best compliments especially

[1:18] like when you were in college because

[1:19] that means you're way further ahead in

[1:21] life than than Josh and I were

[1:24] Thiago what I remember I started writing

[1:27] in my early 20s

[1:29] and I started sending some of that

[1:31] writing off to agents and Publishers and

[1:35] periodicals and quarterlies like the

[1:38] Paris review and I just kept getting

[1:40] rejection after rej