Optimal Finance Daily · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The podcast host, Justin Malik, shares his experience with the 'minimalist game,' where participants discard a progressively larger number of items each day. He highlights how this game forces individuals to confront items kept 'just in case.'
“A while back, I tried the minimalist game where you get rid of one thing on day one, two things on day two, and so on. It starts easy, but somewhere past day 20, it gets really hard. You run out of the obvious junk and start facing the stuff you kept just in case.”
“And that's exactly what she talks about. The item you might need someday, that you then can't even remember a year later.”