If you are sleep deprived you are going to be at a severe handicap in your quest to escape the rat race and live the life of your dreams.

如果你存在睡眠障碍，那么你所追寻的远离激烈竞争、过上梦寐以求生活的理想就会遇到严重的障碍。

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In our modern chaotic and rat race world, we are no longer sleeping in a naturally healthy manner.

在竞争激烈的当今社会，我们已经无法拥有一种自然健康的睡眠方式。

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If we stay in the rat-race 24 hours, seven days a week, we are bound to pollute our inner space as well as the outer space.

如果我们保持每周七天二十四小时你死我活的竞争状态，我们必然会污染我们的内心世界，也会污染外部空间。

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Similarly, Bruno was a successful businessman in Germany before he got fed up with the rat race, and moved to Belize to live in a tent.

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"There's a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche, " says Nick Rosen, author of "Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America" and editor of www.off-grid.net.

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They also aspire to a higher place in society's pecking order, but in so doing force others in the rat race to run faster to keep up.

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