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Habits of Highly Miserable People

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Re: Habits of Highly Miserable People

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post #24

This is perspicaciously cynical. I love it.

I think tone of the article is disgusting.

What disgusts you about its tone?

I found it informative and probably from honest experience. It's superficial chearful embrace towards problems people create for themselves is instructive towards correcting those habits.

Re: Habits of Highly Miserable People

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post #4

> 12. Glorify or vilify the past. Do not do this. Do not live in the past. Do not think about what might, what could, what should have happened. Learn from it and move onwards. Nothing good comes from constantly dwelling on things that can't be changed.

Haha, this has to be high satire. I am thrilled to read it.

Re: Habits of Highly Miserable People

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post #24

This is perspicaciously cynical. I love it.

I think tone of the article is disgusting.

Same. I find it making appeals to the just-world fallacy, not understanding that some people really do experience extended hardship without deserving it.

Re: Habits of Highly Miserable People

#37
> 5. Attribute bad intentions.

Me and my SO have serendipitously discovered a great way to defuse arguments: it's the question "Are you accusing me of foulness?" (any sufficiently Victorian synonym works here)

For some reason most people reflexively deny this in reply and realise that they've been attributing bad intentions groundlessly.

Unfortunately this doesn't work on people who have a mindset which requires there to always be someone at fault.

Re: Habits of Highly Miserable People

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post #4

> 12. Glorify or vilify the past. Do not do this. Do not live in the past. Do not think about what might, what could, what should have happened. Learn from it and move onwards. Nothing good comes from constantly dwelling on things that can't be changed.

Nostalgia isn't all bad...in fact it's believed to improve your mood.

Yeah, for a short moment. Longer tern it likely leads to not appreciating the present.
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