Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Rubber Puff. I don't know about you, but I find young children fascinating.

Their curiosity about the world is just breathtaking.

For young children, the world is... is just a breathtaking.

For young children, the world is just a place to be explored and everything is new,

often exciting.

The fears, apprehensions, and the exhaust that we feel as we get older are something that

young children have to develop. They're not born with that. For many people as they get

older and they go through their day, At the end of the day when they come

home, they just want to sit down, perhaps have something to drink, and watch a mindless

show so they can just relax and turn off the brain. They're exhausted, they're

tired. They have no interest in learning or exploring this world. They basically just want

to check out for a while, go to bed, and then do it all over

again. I do think that's a lot of people's lives.

Well, if this is the first time you've ever listened to this podcast, or you've listened to all the

previous 200, there is one thing that I think we're going to discover as we get on this path

of happiness and finding peace in our lives.

And that is as we get better, as we get healthier inside,

that child-like curiosity is going to come back. A matter of fact, I think it's a test in many ways or a sign that we are on the right path, that we are doing things to get better and improving our lives

and it's working when we begin to have a curiosity about our world instead of shutting off our world and just wanting to crawl in

our little hole and hide from the world.

When we get happier, when we find the peace in our lives, what happens is that child-like

curiosity just begins to come out again and we start exploring our world. It's beautiful, it's wonderful, and it's what we're going

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