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Checklist of strategies from Randy Paterson's How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use

Adopting a miserable lifestyle

  • 1. Avoid all exercise
  • 2. Eat what you're told
  • 3. Don't waste your life in bed
  • 4. Live better through chemistry
  • 5. Maximize your screen time
  • 6. If you want it, buy it
  • 7. Can't afford it? Get it anyway!
  • 8. Give 100 percent to your work
  • 9. Be well informed
  • 10. Set VAPID goals

How to think like an unhappy person

  • 11. Rehearse the regrettable past
  • 12. Blame inward, give credit outward
  • 13. Practice the "three bad things" exercise
  • 14. Construct future hells
  • 15. Value hope over action
  • 16. Become a toxic optimist
  • 17. Filter for the negative
  • 18. Cultivate your presence--elsewhere
  • 19. Insist on perfection
  • 20. Work endlessly on your self-esteem

Hell is other people

  • 21. Become an island unto yourself
  • 22. ive them what they want
  • 23. Measure up and measure down
  • 24. Play to win
  • 25. Hold high expectations of others
  • 26. Drop your boundaries
  • 27. Bond with people's potential, not their reality
  • 28. Demand loyalty
  • 29. React to their movies, not their messages
  • 30. Cultivate and treasure toxic relationships

Living a life without meaning

  • 31. Keep your eye on the small picture
  • 32. Let your impulses be your guide
  • 33. Look out for number one
  • 34. Duty first, life later
  • 35. Live the unlived lives of others
  • 36. Stay in your zone of comfort
  • 37. Avoid solitude
  • 38. Choose fashion over style
  • 39. Pursue happiness relentlessly
  • 40. Improve yourself
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