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How to Be Miserable

By: Randy J. Paterson PhD
Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
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Summary

In How to Be Miserable, psychologist Randy Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits which - if followed - are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!

There are stacks upon stacks of self-help books that will promise you love, happiness, and a fabulous life. But how can you pinpoint the exact behaviors that cause you to be miserable in the first place? Sometimes when we're depressed, or just sad or unhappy, our instincts tell us to do the opposite of what we should - such as focusing on the negative, dwelling on what we can't change, isolating ourselves from friends and loved ones, eating junk food, or overindulging in alcohol. Sound familiar?

This tongue-in-cheek guide will help you identify the behaviors that make you unhappy and discover how you - and only you - are holding yourself back from a life of contentment. You'll learn to spot the tried-and-true traps that increase feelings of dissatisfaction, foster a lack of motivation, and detract from our quality of life - as well as ways to avoid them.

So, get ready to live the life you want (or not?). This fun, irreverent guide will light the way.

©2016 Randy J. Patterson (P)2016 Wetware Media

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Really helpful !

Loved it !! It really made me think about myself and what I do and made me realise that there are other ways of looking at certain situations.
It has helped me a lot so with that I would definitely say it's worth a listen !
In my opinion it is the last self help book you will ever need if understood and internalised correctly

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Un-apologetic and utterly sarcastic

An endeavor towards improvement by means of constant contrasting in all 40 strategies. it is deliberately over-simplified to highlight the universal positions we take in life. It has hit home for me and it deserves further attention, It's so short and to the point I will be revisiting it. Dr. Randy J. Patterson uses a no holds barred and direct narration of his understanding, there is much to learn here.

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Good

Nice look at happiness from the other side. Great way to see what to work on next. Will definitely read again.

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A sarcastic and clever path towards awareness

An anti self-help book, or rather a book that cleverly show that rather than showing us how to reach happiness, redirect us towards minimising the ways we actively make our lives harder than they need to be: by sarcastically showing us in detail how to make ourselves miserable. Props to the hilariously serious narrator.

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eye opening and fun.

a good book, professional information given in an entertaining style by a dedicated reader, would recommend.

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Quirky fun and educational. Teaches and entertains

Littered with humour and sardonic, tongue in cheek amusing dirversions. It has a big impact both directly, by being entertaining and indirectly, by teaching you about the traps we get caught in.

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Repetitive and not anything new.
I actually wondered when the actual book was going to start, listening to the blah blah at the beginning nearly sent me to sleep.

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I think I'll buy a copy for the coffee table

I loved the message, the delivery, the jokes, the length and the good mood it leads you to. I read this book as I enjoyed his other book about becoming assertive.

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Very Enjoyable

I really enjoyed this book. the narrator did a great joy and utbwas a pleasant listening experience.
also I felt learned quite a bit while listening and will try harder to make some of the suggested improvements in my own life.
i hope to apply this knowledge to improve my own quality of life. I will probably edit this review in the future to include some of the changes I have made and how well they worked.

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Life-altering!

This is a fantastic book. Broad in scope, funny and ultimately moderate in tone, it's full of good advice without being shackled to a single ideology about happiness which will, inevitably, have shortcomings. The fact the author has learned many if their insights from working at the coalface of depression shines through and they have the scientific background to contextualise these observations.

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