How To Be Discontent

1. Ruminate about objects that you do not have.

2. Compare your life to others.

3. Assume that your happiness will be obtained when you achieve something that is out of your reach.

4. Ruminate on the parts of your life that you do not like.

5. Read books about your flaws.

6. Believe that peace is obtainable, but not already present.

7. Believe that happiness is the only emotion you should be feeling, all the time.

8. Develop a strong aversion to pain.

9. Avoid pain at all costs.

10. Believe that you should not have problems in your life.

11. Strive for unmeasurable, unattainable, abstract ideals.

12. Measure your success through assumptions of what you think others think.