Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If this is your first time

ever listening to the happiness podcast, welcome. But I want to ask a favor of

you if you end up not liking this episode, I encourage you to listen to another one.

This one's going to be a little different than most of the episodes.

I'm going to go on a different path.

Normally I give very to go on a different path.

Normally I give very specific steps on how to improve our lives and be happy.

This one is more about exploring, why are we here, and what is our purpose.

I think you'll really enjoy it, but it is going to be a little different

than the other episodes. So let's begin. In 1993, a movie came out of the theaters called Groundhog

Day. It starred Bill Murray. It's about an arrogant

self-absorbed weatherman who's being played by Bill Murray, and he's given the assignment

to cover Groundhog Day in a small town in America.

The interesting thing about the movie though is every day he wakes up to the exact same day,

the same Groundhog Day.

He goes to sleep that night and when he wakes up, it's the exact day

over and over and over again. At first he's very confused and not sure what's going on, but with time he realizes what's happening.

He's having to repeat Groundhog Day over and over and over again.

Once he figures this out, he goes through what I call stages. The first stage is one of hedonism.

He just indulges himself in life. But after a while, over and over again can get tiresome and he discovers this.

Because in the movie you're really not told how many days he keeps repeating the same day,

but it's implied that it's years, decades, perhaps even centuries. It isn't clear, but it just keeps going over and

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