Unlearning: A Journey Back to Meaning (Audio Book)

Unlearning: A Journey Back to Meaning
By Van Overboard
In a world racing ever faster toward noise, disposability, and distraction, Unlearning invites you to step off the treadmill — not to retreat from life, but to rediscover it. Part memoir, part meditation, this quietly radical work charts a personal journey away from the manufactured values of modern society and back toward something elemental: meaning.
Through van life adventures, reflections on nature, and piercing observations about society's hidden structures, Van Overboard gently dismantles the myths we’ve inherited — about success, freedom, and belonging — and offers a new compass rooted in presence, simplicity, and resilience.
Structured in three parts — The Noise We Inherited, Remembering What We Forgot, and Rebuilding from the Roots — Unlearning moves from cultural critique to personal experience to hopeful reimagining. Along the way, readers are invited to question the invisible scripts they’ve been handed and to craft lives that feel truer, lighter, and more alive.
This is not a self-help manual, nor a blueprint for escape. It is a call to remember: to make friends, not just money; to seek presence over possession; to design lives — and worlds — that endure, heal, and inspire.
For those who sense that something vital has been forgotten, Unlearning is a quiet, steady hand extended across the noise, leading you home.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Introduction
02:14 - Foreword
04:05 - Chapter 1: Make Money not Friends
12:13 - Chapter 2: The Illusion of Convenience
18:44 - Chapter 3: The Fear of the Free
22:53 - Chapter 4: The Van as a Teacher
27:32 - Chapter 5: Nature's Quiet Lessons
34:51 - Chapter 6: The Power of Stillness
42:42 - Chapter 7: Designing for Life
50:54 - Chapter 8: The Art of Letting Go
56:24 - Chapter 9 - Crafting a New Narrative
01:00:44 - Chapter 10 - Walking the Path of Unlearning