Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Whether we're 16 or 60, we seem to have a pretty

set point for happiness. The level of happiness that we're going to experience in life is pretty much going to stay the same.

However, of course, this podcast is about changing it.

And what we're going to look at today is the difference between learning versus performance and how these two can affect our

state of happiness and improve it.

With a start, first, what do I mean by learning versus performance?

Well, the learning part of anything is the part where we're learning a new skill,

whatever that skill is, and we're improving it.

But because we're in the learning and improving part of that skill, that means we're going to make lots of more decisions. improving it's

that means we're going to make lots of mistakes, perhaps even

get worse at times, but with time and practice we keep getting better.

That's the learning phase.

The performance part is just doing what we've learned,

implementing it, doing it on a regular basis, and performing it is pretty simple.

Let me use an example to illustrate. Let's say we decide to take up

golf. Well the first thing we have to do is get lessons. We have to learn. We have to

learn how to play golf. And if we want to be good at it, we have to get a good instructor who's

going to really teach us and improve our skills. We're going to get out there, perform a certain

way, and he or she will instruct us on ways to get better. It will be a lot of learning, a lot of mistakes, and

will improve. The performance part of a golf is completely different. That's just where we're

getting out there in playing golf, and we can play golf for years and never improve because we're not learning any new skills.

We're not willing to take lessons because those we learn something

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