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

This morning before my yoga class started, I got there early and had a little conversation

with the new owner of the studio. I was asking her how she got into yoga

and she told me she had been a producer of films in Hollywood

and one day it was just so intense that she screamed at her assistant. She said, I just

screamed at him and that wasn't me. And so she decided to do something else at

that point. And now several years later she's an owner of a yoga studio.

And I'm sharing this story because I have had a bit of experience working with producers over the years,

since I do a lot with the media. And what I found is that their jobs are very

crazy. I've always been surprised at how hectic it is and I'll just intense they are when I talk to them

and I think, wow, that's a very hectic

intense life.

I mean, not all, but many of them seem to have just a lot of intensity because their work is

so intense, it's so much on the go.

But sometimes we see consequences from that behavior, consequence from that intensity, like anger.

Not always, but sometimes.

Another example would be think of a type A person. We probably all

known someone like that. I mean, I think what goes along with the type A person is stress,

anger, just a lot of health problems and overall unpleasantness with life.

I'm starting with these two examples just to use an analogy, an analogy in such a way that I think the paths that we get on are going to shape us.

And we're going to see side effects from these shapings.

So if we're committed to being a happier, more peaceful person, are there any side effects that

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