If you need your therapy with a spoonful of sarcasm, step over Ted Lasso and into Mark Manson’s YouTube channel.
In “How To Be Miserable And Ruin Your Life,” we get this 9-point checklist for success:
- Always _______ someone else for your problems.
- _______ constantly.
- _______ anything remotely challenging or uncomfortable.
- Wait for _______.
- Get ______ when that person doesn’t fix your life problems.
- Become obsessed with _______.
- Validate all of your _______ on social media.
- _______ yourself.
- Believe that change is _______.
Spoiler: he fills in the blanks. Just the way you’re thinking, and maybe darker.
I’ll be keeping this link and list handy. Just in case I need a reminder of what I’m supposed to (not be) doing, or as a case-review checklist before releasing more people into the void.
h/t Laurie H. for finding this. More Mark Manson notes here. If you need to dial it back and check out some Ted Lasso stuff, that’s here.
