Robin Greenfield

I think ownership is an illusion.

I don't believe we can own the land.

The earth doesn't sign that contract.

The plants and animals don't sign that contract.

And most of the humans don't sign those contracts when we decide that we own the land.

Just a couple of people with the most privilege and access say, yeah, we now are the owners of this.

So I've been on a long journey of simplifying and downsizing physically, mentally, you know, in every way that I can be doing that.

And years back, I got my life down to 111 possessions.

And then later I got it to 44 possessions.

I've always dreamed of this idea of getting to the place of owning absolutely nothing, not a single material possession, not even clothes or a computer or money or any of that.

It was last year I walked from Canada to Los Angeles.

I simplified my life to everything I own fitting in a backpack.

I walked six months from Canada to LA letting go, shedding what no longer served.

There was still a lot to let go of after 13 years of letting go.

I was really doing a lot of letting go of what's in my mind.

And what I did is I shared everything I had in my mind that was a secret that I was embarrassed about, anything I was hiding or guarding.

And I did that in numerous ways, but ultimately through a nine-part video series that is a total of, I think, six and a half hours.

And at the end of that, there was literally nothing in my mind that anybody else didn't have access to.

So this was a practice of making my own mind creative commons, of trying to the best of my ability to not own my own mind, which is a pretty unique, interesting concept.

And I'm just experimenting with this.