To miswant something means that you mistakenly believe getting it will make you happy. Wanting to win the lottery may be your heart's desire, but as many people who do win find it brings problems for which they are unprepared and which often make them regret winning, to want to win may be a miswant. Similarly, a new car, or that new television, or even a new partner, may all seem to be your ultimate want, but if you actually get them, the delight often cools more quickly than you could ever have imagined, proving that they were really miswanted.
The real problem with miswanting, the researchers argue, is that it leads you to want the wrong things and make poor judgements about what will really make you happy. As they said in their original article: "Much unhappiness ... has less to do with not getting what we want, and more to do with not wanting what we like".
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-mis2.htm
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