[header] How to use modern psychology to live a miserable life [title] Accept that you might be one of the people built to be miserable. [step] Blame the cortical lottery. About half of all humans are born in the negative half of the " affective style " spectrum. 
In a nutshell, some people are just born pessimists. [substeps] Thanks to your genes, you are predisposed to focus on threats, and lack confidence to deal with them.