Januar 16, 2007

Anleitung für ein stressvolles Leben

By Roland Hachmann in Im Netz gefischt, Lifehacks, Nur Spass | 0 comments

Herrlich: Lifehacker schreibt sonst darüber, wie man Stress vermeidet. Jetzt haben sie einen Beitrag gefunden, wie man möglichst stressvoll leben kann. Hier ist eine kleine Zusammenfassung - mehr dazu in dem ursprünglichen Post:

1. Attempt to control absolutely everything

Instead of merely trying to control the process of whatever it is you’re doing, try gaining control over the results as well […] Try to control other people; both what they do, and also what they think. […] The stress factor here lies in the fact that trying to control other people is much like herding cats; requires enormous effort, and you know deep down that it’s futile and ridiculous to even attempt. […] Try to control everything else; the stock market, the weather, your workplace, various events, and last but not least: God.

2. Believe in the possibility of ‘making it’

The concept of arriving somewhere in the future is another very useful and popular source of stress and anxiety, and the illusion of being able to make it in the world is upheld and added to via magazines, television, movies, and whatever medium used to display how ‘the others’ go about living their lives. This is a search for identity, and experientially it can be described as feeling like you’re never really at home anywhere you go. This can be just a hardly noticeable background feeling of unease, but even in that form it is able to create a great deal of stress.

3. Look for satisfaction out there

Most people look almost exclusively to external things and circumstances for their satisfaction, instead of looking within. […] It’s the reason why people spend most of their time working for the purpose of accumulating more things, and then their free time on trying hard to extract as much satisfaction as possible from these things in order to justify the means of attaining them.

4. Emphasize yourself

emphasizing your personal identity can be an excellent source of stress. These include defending your position, making sure you are always right and fighting whoever dares question it; demanding respect and admiration, making sure everyone around you knows who you are and why it’s important…

5. Be more and have more

At the core, all of the above ideas can be summed up in a single method: simply convince yourself that you need more than you have at any given moment, and you will be able to maintain a steady feeling of anxiety throughout the day. This can be a feeling of needing to become more than you already are, or needing to have more than you have now (which are actually one and the same), and can be felt more generally as a perpetual sense of lack.