Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know about you, but I find great joy in watching young children

just express themselves without any concern about what others think about their behavior.

They can dance freely in any situation.

They can wear clothes that we never be willing to be seen in public with. Their words can capture the truth of reality.

When we are younger, our eagles are very quiet. They haven't been developed yet and we just don't care what other people

think of us. But as we know with time, this ego of ours gets a lot louder. But if we're able to, learning

how to keep our egos quieter can really add a lot of freedom and joy to our our

eagles quieter to our lives.

Because I think a lot of suffering comes in life

when we really care about what people think about our behavior.

Of course it's important to consider other people's feelings

in the choices we make in life.

Like will this choice I'm making hurt another person? making

hurt another person.

This isn't what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about when we constrain our behavior

because we feel we would think of them

by others.

I mean, we all know people who, because of what people would think of them,

haven't done or aren't doing the things that they're passionate about for fear of

being judged. Haven't we all heard of the story of an artist who gave up their passion for art because they needed to be responsible and choose

a job that other people would look up to. Or perhaps we've been or known someone who've been in a situation where an activity is occurring that they'd love

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