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So let's dive in. Today we're going to be talking about how to make

yourself miserable. So if you want to be miserable please continue to do these

four things. If you don't want to be miserable you should probably stop

doing these two things or excuse me these four things and so these four things are

stealing your happiness from you and all of myself included, do this in some capacity. And so if you want to be

happier, I would recommend trying to avoid these as much as you possibly can. So let's dive in.

The first one, and this is one that I see a lot of people

struggling with is focusing on things that you cannot control. So as humans we have a really, really deep and I think it's innate desire to control our environment.

Everyone has problems with this in some capacity.

Some of them are really, like some people are just like really want to

control everything they possibly can it becomes too much and some people just

want to control a little bit of they wish just a little bit more control in

their life and I think that know, control and having control makes sense when you think about our ancestors. Like there's definitely evolutionary advantages in trying to control everything. It's a mechanism that's allowed us to survive and

for our species to you know continue to stay alive. You know we lived in a cave at

one point in time. Why did our ancestors live in a cave to try to control the environment, to not get killed, right?

Our ancestors would build TPs. Why to control the environment when they're on the move? Why? To not get killed.

They started farming. Why did they start farming?

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