Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions.

This Mastery Session is all about why I walk in the woods.

Now you're going Robin, why are you sharing a mastery session on your nature walks?

But I remember reading a book that has still formed my thinking even to this moment

that I am blessed to share with you.

And it's Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

Do you know the story about Walden?

Well, this is a man who lived in the world

and he sort of came across a thought experiment

about living by a lake in this area called Walden. I think the pond

was called Walden. I think it was on Walden Pond and it really got me thinking

about people who divorce themselves from the world

and go out into the wilderness just to think and just to learn about themselves and just to be.

You know, I'm reading another book right now called Big Magic by Elizabeth

Gilbert. You might have read her book Eat, Pray, Love. And in that book she talks about this incredibly creative author who wrote this piece of work that made him very famous.

And the fame just didn't sit well with him.

So guess what he did? He went to Greece and lived on the top of a mountain for 10 years.

And then after that time in the wilderness he came back and wrote another book and people were wowed again and they thought he was like this

creative God and what he did do what he became

super famous he went off for another few decades and did another masterwork that he

birthed into the world and what I'm suggesting to you is this.

In this world where so few of us are comfortable being alone,

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