Robin Greenfield

And so what I would do is I would create these practices that were specifically designed to help me to break free from what people would think.

For example, way back at the beginning, I set myself a challenge of one week where I could only eat with my hands no matter where I was, restaurant, party.

And, you know, in most of white Western society to eat with your hands, they're going to think of you as low.

Right.

So I would do these things where people would think of me as low and just get used to people thinking of me as low.

I started the dumpster dive, eating from the garbage.

And so just the more and more people that thought less of me

Actually, the more helpful that was because it just became something that I became used to.

In 2016, when I did the month of living like the average person, but having to wear every single piece of trash while living in New York City.

Yes, perfect explanation.

And so the average US American creates four and a half pounds of trash per day.

If I consume like the average person, that's 135 pounds a month.

Anybody listening to this knows it's hard to walk around with 135 pounds on your body.

So I had to wear it everywhere that I went.

And so talk about, you know, I'm literally walking around the streets covered in garbage.

So you got to have some, you know, strength to do that, mental strength to do that.

Yes.

So what I did, I was really concerned at the beginning of going outside, especially when the suit was kind of empty because it's not even a good visual at the beginning.

So I ended up getting so fortunate to watch the film The Big Short.

Which is the one about the 2008-2009 housing market crash where millions of U.S.