How to be Miserable: Define Yourself By Your Aspirations, Not Your Achievements

Another in a series of lessons How to be Miserable, over at the HOW TO BE MISERABLE YouTube Channel: Define yourself by your aspirations, not your achievements. Our culture encourages people to identify their great interests or ambitions, and then identify themselves with these as though they are accomplishments rather than aspirational ideas. Doing so is a classic way to build a "false self" that begins to work against the person's well-being. Here's how.