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

Resilience. It's such a beautiful word and concept and it has a lot to do with happiness.

The definition of resilience is the capacity to recover quickly

from difficulties or toughness. So why would resilience be important for our happiness?

It's actually very simple.

It's just one of the rules of life.

And this rule is like gravity.

It is a guaranteed thing to happen.

We can do a lot of things to slow it down from happening, but sooner or later,

this thing's going to happen. And it's change or impermanence.

Life changes. It doesn't stay the same.

And change can be good, but for us sometimes change isn't so good.

Sometimes these changes are big, and sometimes these changes aren't so big,

but there's still changes.

For example, I've had the same email address for the last 30 years.

It's a good one. I use it everywhere. But the company that hosts my email address made some

changes, and what they didn't tell me is that they were having that hosts my email address made some changes.

And what they didn't tell me is that they were having difficulty

on their end with these changes themselves.

So my email address stopped working.

And I spent a good part of a week trying to fix that, not realizing that the real problem was coming on their end, where I thought it was something wrong with my technology, and I really needed that email address to work because it's part of my business and what I do. It ended

up getting resolved and thankfully I say pretty calm through it. Took me a lot of

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