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Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use, written by psychologist Randy Paterson. How to Be Miserable outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which—if followed to the letter—are sure to lead to a lifetime chock-full of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!

This tongue-in-cheek audiobook will help you identify the behaviors that make you unhappy and discover how you—and only you—are holding yourself back from a life of contentment. You’ll learn to spot and avoid the tried-and-true traps that increase feelings of dissatisfaction, foster a lack of motivation, and detract from your quality of life.

In this episode, Randy Paterson shares a darkly funny technique for making yourself feel inferior to everyone around you. You’ll learn just what to do if you want to be miserable in social situations, and, just maybe, some ways to be comfortable and confident.

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Worry is a thorn in our side—a rude audience member at the performance of our lives. Worry likes to trick you into thinking there’s danger where there is none, and then urges you to fight, fly, or freeze. In today’s episode, we’re giving worries a taste of its their own medicine with an excerpt from the audiobook The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, written by psychologist and anxiety expert, David A. Carbonell.

The Worry Trick shows how anxiety hijacks the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry, once and for all. The techniques in this audiobook, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, reveal the trick that lies beneath your anxious thoughts, and teaches you why avoiding anxiety backfires and always make things worse.

In this excerpt, Dr. Carbonell introduces us to the comic character of “Uncle Argument”―a belligerent relative who insists on arguing with you, and a potent metaphor for chronic anxiety. You’ll sympathize with the plight of being stuck next to Uncle Argument, and learn how to outwit both him—and your worries!

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Today we’re hearing from tennis master, corporate coach, and author of Live the Best Story of Your Life: A World Champion’s Guide to Lasting Change, Bob Litwin. After the tragic loss of his wife and several invasive surgeries, Bob was feeling stuck and depressed. Never one to sit out on a match, Bob changed his own story and began living in the best way possible, every day. His experiences inspired his audiobook, Live the Best Story of Your Life, which includes 33 lessons on how to change your life for the better, starting today.

In today’s conversation, Bob discusses his new audiobook, his theory about how we can all change our lives more easily and more permanently than we imagine, and some tips for easy and almost instantaneous change.

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Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook The Little Book of Big Change, written by psychologist Amy Johnson.

No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that can be easily changed. If you want to understand the science behind any bad habit, make the decision to end it, and commit to real, lasting change, this audio book will help you to finally take charge of your life—once and for all.

In this excerpt, Dr. Johnson shares a surprising truth about willpower: It often fails people when they are in the grip of their urges, and need it most, as well as how you can best approach the thoughts that urge you to give in to old habits.

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“We get caught in perfectionistic and absolutist approaches. We impose rules on ourselves, such as “I will exercise every day.” But once we violate the rule, we feel helpless. We become like the animal on the electrified grid. Seeing no way to change, we give up altogether.” —from The Buddha’s Way of Happiness

Have you noticed that the excitement you feel after achieving a goal tends to be fleeting? Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you could put aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to change your life for the better, and awaken to the joy of living? Today we’re addressing these questions with an excerpt from The Buddha’s Way of Happiness: Healing Sorrow, Transforming Negative Emotion, and Finding Well-Being in the Present Moment by psychologist Thomas Bien.

This audiobook is a guide to identifying the barriers to happiness you create in your own life. You’ll learn how to use the eightfold path of Buddhist psychology to improve your ability to appreciate the small, joyful moments that happen every day.

In this excerpt, Dr. Bien explains why our harmful habits can be so incredibly difficult to break. You’ll be inspired by the Buddha’s wisdom, and learn that real change is possible when you can avoid the trap of black and white thinking about your habits.

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