7. Wilderness

The man in the video had a very transcendentalist mentality. He clearly felt that in order to be closer to himself he needed to be in complete solitude and around nature. The man in the film builds everything that he has in the wilderness by hand. He goes through about a month constructing his own cabin. He clearly takes great pride in his ability to accomplish everything that he needs to do entirely by himself. This is highly reminiscent of Emerson when he says in Self-Reliance:

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernal of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

The man in the video clearly believes that imitation is suicide because of his belief that he needs to do everything by himself in order for it to be authentic. He is almost a blueprint for a true transcendentalist.