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    ## Adopting a miserable lifestyle

    - [ ] 1. Avoid all exercise
    - [ ] 2. Eat what you're told
    - [ ] 3. Don't waste your life in bed
    - [ ] 4. Live better through chemistry
    - [ ] 5. Maximize your screen time
    - [ ] 6. If you want it, buy it
    - [ ] 7. Can't afford it? Get it anyway!
    - [ ] 8. Give 100 percent to your work
    - [ ] 9. Be well informed
    - [ ] 10. Set VAPID goals

    ## How to think like an unhappy person

    - [ ] 11. Rehearse the regrettable past
    - [ ] 12. Blame inward, give credit outward
    - [ ] 13. Practice the "three bad things" exercise
    - [ ] 14. Construct future hells
    - [ ] 15. Value hope over action
    - [ ] 16. Become a toxic optimist
    - [ ] 17. Filter for the negative
    - [ ] 18. Cultivate your presence--elsewhere
    - [ ] 19. Insist on perfection
    - [ ] 20. Work endlessly on your self-esteem

    ## Hell is other people

    - [ ] 21. Become an island unto yourself
    - [ ] 22. ive them what they want
    - [ ] 23. Measure up and measure down
    - [ ] 24. Play to win
    - [ ] 25. Hold high expectations of others
    - [ ] 26. Drop your boundaries
    - [ ] 27. Bond with people's potential, not their reality
    - [ ] 28. Demand loyalty
    - [ ] 29. React to their movies, not their messages
    - [ ] 30. Cultivate and treasure toxic relationships

    ## Living a life without meaning

    - [ ] 31. Keep your eye on the small picture
    - [ ] 32. Let your impulses be your guide
    - [ ] 33. Look out for number one
    - [ ] 34. Duty first, life later
    - [ ] 35. Live the unlived lives of others
    - [ ] 36. Stay in your zone of comfort
    - [ ] 37. Avoid solitude
    - [ ] 38. Choose fashion over style
    - [ ] 39. Pursue happiness relentlessly
    - [ ] 40. Improve yourself