The 7 Habits of Highly Miserable People

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it widely in advice threads on depression, habits, and goal setting as a funny, memorable way to see what to do by seeing what not to do.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CGP Grey

Topic

habits and misery

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

18

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• having been, for want of a better term, ‘highly miserable’ in the past, the entirety of this article comes across as insidiously toxic and detrimental to the mental well-being of those who are suffering. there is a.. loosely similar CGP Grey video, which approaches the …

• CGP Grey recently posted a great video titled "7 Ways to Maximize Misery". It's worth checking out. [VIDEO]

• I have most recently been trying to plan out at least 6 months ahead. How I am approaching this was inspired by some life events and some videos I had seen on Youtube. I really liked this video by Scott Hanselmann ( [LINK] ) about …