My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Leary clarifies turning on and dropping out as internal detachment from social games before external action.
- In plain terms
- Detach internally from social games before changing external habits.
- What can you take from it?
- Internal change precedes external change.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What social games do you play?
- How do you detach internally?
Another view
It assumes internal detachment is feasible without addressing material constraints.
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