Robin Greenfield

So I'd see it all the time.

My friends would see it.

And I just set out on this journey of one step at a time, unraveling the web of consumerism and monetization that I was so deeply wrapped into.

And as I broke each strand of that web,

making new strands, to build a new web, a web of living in harmony, simply, sustainably, in community, in connection, and in a demonetized way.

What I realized as I continued this is that most things I was doing, I was going against the grain of society.

which meant each day was work to accomplish these basic things.

And once you make that change, it's not like the change is set in stone.

You have to actually actively continue that change because society is trying to suck you back.

And the tool that I came up with, and I don't remember where this came from, if someone

shared it with me, or I just popped into my head, was that every action that I would take, instead of asking consciously or subconsciously, what are people going to think about me?

I asked, is this beneficial to the earth, my community, and myself?

And that was my new lens of looking at the world.

And that was a really helpful way for me to

For me to let go.

And really, people ask me what my biggest advice to children would be, but I guess this probably would be my biggest advice to everyone, which is let go of what other people are thinking.

That's one of the most freeing things you can possibly do to allow you to really live the life that you truly want to.

Everything that you want to be successful at requires work.

So some people might pursue a musical instrument or a sport or an intellectual subject.

To live sustainably requires practice and diligence in the same way as any of those.