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How to Be Miserable
- 40 Strategies You Already Use
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 5 hrs
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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.
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- William Axtell
- 16-01-20
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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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-19
A brilliant and refreshing way to examine why we are miserable
Written so clever and interesting, this book is so so fab! The narrator is brilliant too. Highly recommend, can’t wait to listen to it again :)
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- martin
- 18-03-20
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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- Barnacles
- 21-07-23
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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- Anonymous User
- 27-01-19
Great read with a nonconformist approach
Great read for an overview on the damaging thoughts and actions in our day2day life.
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- Kim
- 24-06-18
Fantastically insightful
Narrator easily kept my attention through this interesting and informational read, and helped give me some good advice on living a 'worse' life
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- Hannah
- 18-04-19
Humour filled good advice for reflection
Listened intently and have lots of takeaways from it. Highly recommended it to all my friends and family
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- DBT
- 15-12-17
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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- Mr. J. Garside
- 11-11-17
An excellent guide on how to miserable!
I was amazed at just how many I already do. I've been wondering why I seem to be constantly miserable without much reason. Turns out the reason appears to be that I was treating the elements of this guide like a check list I must complete without even knowing I was doing it. I think I'm going to try and do a few less now.
This self reflection was made easier by just how well written and narrated the book was. Really kept my attention and interest throughout.
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- Joe
- 13-01-19
The most comprehensive and honest guide to mood
All about how your daily actions affect your overall mood. I’ve never heard a summary of how we create our own happiness or misery that is so easy to understand
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