Maximize Your Misery! (7 Great Methods)

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• Let’s imagine that instead of being healthily fulfilled in life, you wanted to spend your days as miserable as possible. What should you do?

  • Today’s main feature details some of the best ways to do that, along with resources to find more ways. How many are you doing already?

• We know that 10almonds readers don’t just want to look younger, but ideally to be younger, biologically speaking.

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• Today’s featured book is the best anatomy textbook this reviewer has yet seen!

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Psychology Sunday

Maximize Your Misery! (7 Great Methods)

Let’s imagine that instead of being healthily fulfilled in life, you wanted to spend your days as miserable as possible. What should you do?

Here are a few pointers:

Stay still

Avoid physical activity and/or outdoor exposure, to avoid any mood-lifting neurochemicals. In fact, remain indoors as much as possible, preferably in the same room.

If you want to absolutely maximize your misery, make your bedroom the sole space for all activities that it’s possible to do there.

Disrupt your sleep

Keep an irregular sleep schedule by varying your bedtime and wake-up times frequently. Sleep in as much as possible, and make up for it by staying up late to ensure ongoing exhaustion.

Maximize screentime

Use digital entertainment as much as possible to distract you from meaningful activities and rest—as a bonus, this will also help you to avoid self-reflection.

Begin and end your day with a device in hand.

Fuel negative emotions

If you’re going to focus on something, focus on problems you cannot control, to stoke the fires of anger and angst.

A good way of doing this is by staying informed about distressing events, while avoiding meaningful actions to address them. Contribute only in token gestures, and then lament the lack of change.

Follow your impulses

Act on short-term desires without considering long-term consequences, while avoiding behaviors that you know might improve your mood or wellbeing.

Trust that doing the same things that have not previously resulted in happiness, will continue to reliably deliver unhappiness.

Set goals to miss

It’s important that your goals should be vague, and overly ambitious in their scope and/or deliverability. Ideally you should also disregard any preparatory work that a person would normally do before embarking on such a project.

Bonus tip: you can further sabotage any chances of progress, by waiting for motivation to strike before you take any action.

Pursue happiness

Focus on chasing happiness itself, instead of improving your situation or skills. Treat happiness as an end goal, instead of a by-product of worthwhile activities.

Want to learn more?

If you’d like to know many more ways to be miserable, we featured these 7 from this book of 40, which we haven’t reviewed yet, but probably will one of these days:

How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use – by Dr. Randy Paterson

Alternatively…

If for some strange reason you’d rather not do those things, you might consider a previous article of ours:

How To Get Your Brain On A More Positive Track (Without Toxic Positivity)

Enjoy!

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One-Minute Book Review

Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy – by Dr. Anne Argur & Dr. Arthur Dalley

Imagine, if you will, Grey’s Anatomy but beautifully illustrated in color and formatted in a way that’s easy to read—both in terms of layout and searchability, and also in terms of how this book presents anatomy described in a practical, functional context, with summary boxes for each area, so that the primary concepts don’t get lost in the very many details.

(In contrast, if you have a copy of the famous Grey’s Anatomy, you’ll know it’s full of many pages of nothing but tiny dense text, a large amount of which is Latin, with occasional etchings by way of illustration)

Another way in which this does a lot better than the aforementioned seminal work is that it also describes and discusses very many common variations and abnormalities, both congenital and acquired, so that it’s not just a text of “what a theoretical person looks like inside”, but rather also reflects the diverse reality of the human form (we weren’t made identically in a production line, and so we can vary quite a bit).

The book is, of course, intended for students and practitioners of medicine and related fields, so what good is it to the lay person? Well, if you ask the average person where the gallbladder is and why we have one, they will gesture in the general direction of the abdomen, and sort of shrug sheepishly. You don’t have to be that person :)

Bottom line: if you’d like to know your acetabulum from your zygomatic arch, this is the best anatomy book this reviewer has yet seen.

Click here to check out Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, and prepare to be amazed!

PS: this one is expensive, but consider it a fair investment in your personal education, if you’re serious about it!

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Wishing you a peaceful and fulfilling Sunday,

The 10almonds Team