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The 7 Habits of Highly Miserable People

CGP Grey · 14.7M views · 2017-05-31 · 6:06

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Overview

CGP Grey's sarcastic animated video adapted from the book How to Be Miserable, listing habits that reliably make people unhappy. By inverting the advice, it shows what to avoid and prompts reflection on goals and routines.

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HN recommends it widely in advice threads on depression, habits, and goal setting as a funny, memorable way to see what to do by seeing what not to do.

Recommended by 11 HN people across 8 months · HN mentions 2017–2026

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What people said

foxhill · 2018-06 · Strong recommendation

having been, for want of a better term, ‘highly miserable’ in the past, the entirety of this article comes across as insidiously toxic and detrimental to the mental well-being of those who are suffering. there is a.. loosely similar CGP Grey video, which approaches the matter in a much more rational context [1] for anyone suffering, i emplore you to not read this and watch this instead; [1] - [VIDEO]

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extraduder_ire · 2023-10 · Recommendation

I really like this format of telling people how to do the thing they don't want. Works way better, and is more memorable than doing the more common thing of telling people how to avoid the thing they don't want. CGP grey did a video like this that's still my favourite example of the format: [VIDEO]

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spurgu · 2021-12 · Recommendation

Here's a great video going over the same concepts but in a humorous way. 7 ways to maximize misery: [VIDEO]

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