Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I have an exercise machine that I keep in my office that I really like to use, especially when it's rainy outside, or I just only have a short break and I want to stretch my body a little bit.

I think I purchased it about five years ago and they use it every week many times a week.

So I would say I've used it well over a thousand times.

Well, I came in this week on Monday and turned on the machine,

but it wouldn't turn on.

So I unplugged it from the wall and plucked it back in.

I checked this connection and it seemed fine, but I thought,

hmm, too bad, I think this machine is broken and I'll either need to get it fixed or go get a

new one. I was thinking about getting a new one the rest of that day and where I could purchase it and what I would get instead to replace it.

And then when I came in the next day, all of a sudden I realized something.

I have to turn the machine on for it to work first.

What I was doing, I was pressing the button that makes it go, but there's a button to turn the whole machine on?

And after using that machine for over a thousand times times I'd forgotten to turn it on first.

My first reaction was one of relief.

I'm so glad I figured it out.

Now I don't have to buy a new one because it's a pretty expensive machine.

The second one was of laughter.

I thought, that's amazing.

How could I have forgotten to turn that machine on

after a thousand times?

It made me laugh.

And then I just went back to my day. But as my day wore on, I thought, I bet everyone wouldn't have that same experience, especially if they were me. What do I mean by that?

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