Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. As we go through life and have experiences, sometimes we

discover that we have strengths and sometimes we discover that we have weaknesses,

things that we could get better at.

One of the beautiful things about happiness is, unlike other things, say our physical health

or our mental acuity, is that as we get older we can increase our level of

happiness and keep getting better, more peaceful, more happy, and truly just a

better quality of life overall.

And though we can keep growing to our dying breath,

and nothing externally can keep us from this growth,

we might, however, stop crying.

But why would we do this if we can keep getting our lives better?

Why wouldn't we? Why wouldn't we invest?

And put forth effort in time to keep getting better?

Well the biggest issue with change and growth is it does make us uncomfortable

when we learn a new skill, whatever it may be, for example, let's say we want to learn how to be more

patient with people, and we're not very patient, initially we have to really think about it and

say, okay, right now, I really want to lash out of this person I don't want to do

that so I need to stop be calm and then think of something else to do instead of

lashing out it takes effort it takes time to change.

And after a while, after a long days, after a long years, after a long lives,

a lot of people just say, I don't care, I just want to live my life enjoy life and not worry about change anymore

or getting better so what we're cultivating is habits habits get in place and

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