Traveller and writer Italo Bertolasi talks about Unlearning

“I always consider myself a nomad”

Being nomadic is a state of mind.

It’s the feeling of belonging to many places.

It’s the confidence of being part of nature before anything else.

It’s not a country that define our identity but the things we do, our values and beliefs.

We had the honour to interview Italo Bertolasi, “a romantic traveller” as we would like to call him.

Someone who explore the world not to conquer it but to understand himself better.

We talked about nomadism, life in contemporary society and human knowledge.

Italo hiked the most remote path in Japan and China. Every holy mountain he climbed taught him a lesson, because what matters isn’t to reach the summit but what you learn on the way up.

In this video Italo talks about all the knowledge we have learned since a very young age, in school and society, to behave (or act) a certain way. And now we feel full, suffocated by all the things we had to learn. Also because we realised what we really need to live an happy is really simple: it’s eating and sleeping, it’s being loved and have the time to love back, it’s feeling through our senses rather than memorising other’s knowledge.

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