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Escape the Rat Race:
Change Your Mind or Take the Emergency Exit

By Derek Ralston



Copyright 2012 Derek Ralston



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Table of Contents

Introduction

Motivations for Escaping the Rat Race

2 Approaches for Escaping the Rat Race

Changing Your Inner Reality (Buddhist / Stoist Approach)

Attachments Exercise

3 Ways to Change Your Inner Reality

Changing Your Daily Habits (Buddhist / Stoist Approach)

Bad Work Habits (Rat Race Addiction)

Healthy Work Habits (Rat Race Rehab)

Bad Leisure Habits (Mass Media Addiction)

Healthy Leisure Habits (Mass Media Rehab)

Creating Personally-Selected Goals for Work and Leisure

Taking the Emergency Exit Approach

Ways to Change Your Outer Reality

Putting It All Together

Questions and Answers

Also by Derek Ralston

Notes

References


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