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Today I am going to be talking about how to escape the rat race. I'm going to teach you

the first step to getting free from the rat race

and to be creating the actual life that you want to that is much more free. And what we need to understand is that we live

in a world that is dominated by consumerism.

And if we're being honest, we have all,

you and I have been raised in it our entire lives.

So we have been, whether it was consciously or unconsciously,

brainwashed, to be a consumerist, to consume,

to want more, to constantly be wanting more stuff and things.

And it's like the idea, I think is the Buddhist call, it's like the hungry ghost, right?

You could feed a ghost, but it's just going to go through them and they're going to continue to be hungry.

Never going to fill up a ghost because it's just going to fall on the floor.

You know, we have been taught to constantly want more and more and more.

And I have been caught up in this in my life as well. I came to the realization at about

32 years old that the first 32 years of my life were really focused on how can I make money and the reason why I wanted to make money was because

we didn't have money when I was a kid. My father was an alcoholic and I saw that there was lack of what felt like

safety being around him and I thought to myself well money will give me

safety and so I started trying to make money and started making that like my number

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