Shiny Happy People

Shane Parrish wrote the below, recent post on his always excellent Farnham Street newsletter:

Patterns of unhappy people:

– Need social approval 
– Are reliably unreliable 
– Feel sorry for themselves 
– Choose comfort over truth 
– Refuse to learn from others 
– Spend more than they make 
– Use chemicals to alter mood 
– Make everything about them 
– Resent the success of others 
– Confuse motion with progress 
– Confuse cynicism with intelligence 
– Promiscuous with their attention 
– Always in love with their first idea 
– Are always too smart to look stupid 
– Need to learn everything from mistakes 
– Build a life that looks better than it feels 
– Protect their potential by never testing it 
– Stay loyal to decisions that no longer make sense 
– Win arguments at the expense of the relationships 
– Standards for others and explanations for themselves

Not a good place to be.

Here’s the positive news…Wanna be a shiny, happy person?

Do the opposite of every single one of these things, and you will be.