Colin Beavan: No Impact Man On How To Be Alive

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  The biggest gift we can give the world is to go out in front of people and accept the possibility of being wrong.

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  So today's guest, Colin Bevan, kind of burst onto the scenes in 2009 when he was featured along with his family in a documentary called no Impact man, and then published a book by the same name in the following year that kind of exploded into the public's consciousness, and it told the story of a family living in the heart of New York City that spent a year trying to live with zero impact on the environment.

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  And some of the choices that they made looked like they were brutally hard from the outside looking in and probably from the inside looking out.

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  But what they discovered along the way was that the choices and the shift in mindset and experience was to a large extent, an incredible gift.

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  And that also touched off this deeper exploration in Collins mind about what does it actually mean to be alive on the planet?

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  How do we live a good life?

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  And how do we relate to other people and be in service of other people and of the planet in general?

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  And what does that mean in terms of our ability to actually just live good lives?

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  And that led him into a deep dive into the research on actually living a good life.

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  And it opened his eyes to a lot of things he wasn't expecting to discover and culminated in a new book, which is really fascinating, called how to be Alive.

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  We dive into this in today's conversation.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields.

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  This is good Life project.

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  So we're hanging out here, and it's kind of the eve of the publication, almost the eve of the publication of your next book.

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  And I want to go deep into that because there's some really fascinating stuff on there.

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  But let's give a little bit of context, too, and let's take a step back in time.

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  You kind of burst into the public's consciousness a chunk of years back because of, I guess, a blend of your value set and sort of like a big social experiment that you were doing.

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  Take me back.

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  So this is back in 2007.

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  That's when, as you put it, I burst into consciousness.

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