How to Escape the Bullshit

A guide to reducing unnecessary stress and getting your real life back

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“And it goes: War! Recession! Recession and then war! / It’s written in the history books, we’ve seen it all before. / I’ll sing a song of freedom, and all I can say is: / Just don’t believe the bullshit.” — Beans on Toast

If you’re reading this, you probably smell a rat. You look around the bullshit and stress of your life and you think: There’s no way it has to be like this. Like a critical mass of people today, you are coming to a deep, sometimes disturbing, recognition that the majority of the bullshit in your life is just that: bullshit.

Many, if not most, of the events, constraints, obligations, beliefs, tasks and conditioning in your life are showing their true colors: surprise! They’re bullshit. They’re actually unnecessary, not only unnecessary but counterproductive, not only counterproductive but actively detrimental to your happiness, your purpose and your life itself.

For a long time, a combination of fear, dependence and conditioning kept you from seeing the bullshit for what it really was, but now, you can’t put the cat back in the bag. Your life is full of bullshit and you don’t want it to be that way anymore. You want out. You want something different. You want the only shit in your life to…