Ben Greenfield

And it's cool for the kids, too, because, like, they get this almost, like, sense of pride in, like, what it means to, in our case, to be a Greenfield, and, like, oh, we don't complain, not because, you know, Dad said, shut up and don't complain, but because that's, like,

on the wall on the mission statement like this is what it means to be a greenfield like we're just content no matter what happens or we're able to be radically transparent and honest with each other and feel like it's a danger-free zone to be able to do so and those are just like built in to the constitution and so it's kind of cool because they they like know what they stand for

Because we live in an era where you could be anything you want.

Like, you know, several generations ago, if your great-granddad was a blacksmith and your granddad was a blacksmith, your dad was a blacksmith, your mom was a blacksmith, your horse shears, you could build fences or whatever.

And now you can, you know,

thanks to YouTube and online education and the rapid transmission of information and a whole lot of other variables you could be whatever you want to be but it also can create that disconnect you were talking about Robbie where like it's pretty easy to just like carve out your own path in life and almost leave behind um not only the stuff that might have held you back from former Generations but also the stuff that could have served you so like my sons are

Like, they have a card game business, right?

I'm in health and fitness and biohacking, and all of a sudden, my sons are doing card games.

Right.

But they're doing card games and still hanging on to a lot of the values that we as human beings, like as Greenfield human beings, have.

So I think that helps in this era where, you know, kids are probably going to wind up going off and doing something that might be starkly different than what your career is, but you can still pass on a lot of value.

How'd you come up with that?

Um, not my own.

So I don't even talk about this that much on podcasts because it's like outside my niche.

I even wrote a book about this and like all the publishers were like, we're not going to publish that because you're not supposed to like publish a book if you're a health and fitness guy that's not in the health and fitness category.

So I even self published the book I wrote about this.

called Boundless Parenting.

But a big part of it was like, I was homeschooled K through 12.

I placed a great deal of value on like an autodidact approach to life, but also kind of like a self-actualized approach to learning, which is what I experienced, right?

I could study a lot of the things that I was passionate about and I didn't necessarily have to learn at the same pace as the rest of the classroom.