Happiness. Many will advise you how to obtain it, but maybe you're not trying to be happy.

Your actions aim for the opposite. You want to be the saddest saddo sailing on the sea of sadness.

Much easier to achieve, and this video has seven tactics to get you started toward the dark currents,

at least one of which you are already doing.

So let's begin.

First, stay still.

Remain indoors as much as possible.

Preferably in the same room.

Be the human equivalent of a pile of laundry.

Inert, unmoving.

Don't let a beautiful day tempt you for a walk.

Avoid anything even vaguely exorcizial. This keeps

reward chemicals out of your brain which could divert you and stillness guides you towards

medical problems which will keep this wheel turning. Stillness is the most effective thing

you can do. So be the laundry pile. Make your bedroom your all room, live and work and play and sleep in the

smallest radius you can.

Which brings us to screw with your sleep.

The wraith of insomnia will be your co-pilot on the sea of sadness.

Her mere presence is unpleasant, but she also helps confuse the productive part of your brain,

which might look to navigate you

toward the islands of happiness on the horizon. More on that later. A regular sleep cycle is a fragile

thing and takes at least three days to establish. Be sure then to vary your bedtime by several

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