Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. We listen to this

podcast probably for a lot of different reasons, but one of the main reasons I

think people start listening to this podcast is their life isn't going as

well as they'd like and they want to improve it. They want to learn how to be

happier. But in this episode we're going to look at why people aren't happy.

What's keeping them from being in that place where things are going well

and they're just flowing with life?

Because I think there's a lot of people that fall in that camp, probably most. So what happens? Why aren't

we happier as a civilization, as a people? Why do we struggle so much? I mean, we can ask ourselves this question.

How many people do we know that truly life is just going well for them?

It isn't that everything is going the way they want it to,

but they handle things so smoothly and nothing seems to

get under their skin and life just seems to go pretty well for them. But there aren't

many of them and why is that? What's going on here that so many people, the vast

majority of people struggle? This loss of innocence, this loss of happiness begins at a very young age. When we're born, life is an

adventure. There's so much to explore and we're excited. We are curious

about everything. But then our little minds kick in and they say, hey, that

felt great, I want more of that. Candy is good. Let's have a lot of candy. Oh, I didn't like that. That

spinach was awful. Let's stay away from spinach. And that's what we begin to do at

a very young age. We become very hedonistic. We want good things and we shun bad things.

It's simple. It's a good plan and we implement it, but it really catches us mostly because life changes.

We can hang on to things as tightly as we want, but life tends to change.

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