“How to Guarantee a Life of Misery”

How to Be Unhappy:

-stay inside all day

-move as little as possible

-spend more than you earn

-take yourself (and life) too seriously

-look for reasons why things won’t work

-always consume, never contribute

-resent the lucky and successful

-never say hello first

-be unreliable

Invert for happiness:

-get outside each day

-move: walk, exercise, dance

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his guidelines are more like a fundamental code of everyday living: - know your long-range purposes - work in the service of some cause that you can respect - attempt to live and work in an environment in line with your own innate values - develop a philosophy of gratitude - reduce procrastination – it can be dangerous - use muscular activity to al

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“Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backwards. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don’t we want to go, and how do you get there?

"Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead–through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid t... See more

many readers, I realize, this line of reasoning will fall flat. They will insist that duty is the enemy of happiness and consequently that the best way to have a good life is to escape all forms of duty: Rather than spending our days doing things we have to do, we should spend them doing things we want to do. In chapter 20 I return to this question

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