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How
to Stay Stressed
Good Suggestions for Bad Health, by David Gordon
• Always
begin by setting impossibly high standards for yourself
• Compare
yourself only with the greatest masters of all times
• Take
all criticism as total truth and take it personally
• Condemn
all your mistakes and imperfections without mercy
• View your work not as a commitment but as a burden to resent
• Fixate
on the outcome, and ignore the process
• Identify
the success of every endeavor as an assessment
of your value as a human being
• Worry
constantly about factors beyond your control
• Avoid all meditation and relaxation
• Eliminate your sense of humor
• Never listen to music for pleasure
• If you have a physical problem, seek a quick, easy solution outside yourself
• Don't exercise; eat anything at all, anytime you want
• Smoke, drink, use stimulants, take drugs
• Don't fasten your seatbelt
• Take on too much, never say no
• Rate everything as critically and equally important
• Stay disorganized
• Ignore your support networks
• Don't ask for help
• Take no responsibility for your behavior
• Exploit the friendship of others for your short-term advantage
• Stay in the victim position
• When in doubt, blame someone else
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