178: 8 Ways to Quit Rat Race And Enjoy Your Life - Michel de Montaigne
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This episode discusses eight ways to escape the rat race and enjoy life through the philosophy of Michel de Montaigne.
In this podcast we will be talking about 8 Ways to Quit Rat Race And Enjoy Your Life from the philosophy of Michel de Montaigne. Michel de Montaigne was a 16th-century French philosopher So here are 8 Ways to Quit Rat Race And Enjoy Your Life from the philosophy of Michel de Montaigne- 01. Build Your "Arrière-Boutique" 02. Stop Guarding Your Money 03. Lower the Stakes of Your Own Importance 04. Embrace Intellectual Humility 05. Travel Without a Destination 06. Practice Radical Presence 07. Seek Soul-Deep Connection 08. Confront your Mortality We hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and hope this video, from the philosophy of Montaigne, helps you to quit rat race and enjoy your life. Michel de Montaigne was a 16th-century French philosopher who defined ambition not as a virtue but as an unnatural "disease of the soul" because it makes people sacrifice the life they have right now for a future that might never even happen. In 1571, right on his 38th birthday, he walked into his office and permanently resigned from his position as a judge in the Bordeaux parliament. It was exactly the kind of role Renaissance men spent their whole lives networking, scheming, and stressing out…
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