#274 Happiness - Two Key Components of The Good Life
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On our search for the good life, is there anything they we can focus on throughout the day to help us? Dr. Puff explores 2 key ingredients of living the good life. Two books meantioned in the talk were "Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust and "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Over the years, I've been teaching a lot of different aspects of happiness and how to have a good life. But every once in a while, I think it's important to have reminders of what are the key aspects of having a good life and making our lives go well. |
| 0:31.0 | Because I think sometimes we get overwhelmed by having ideas and suggestions given to us. |
| 0:37.5 | And sometimes it can be really helpful just having a couple things that we can look at throughout the day to remind us of what |
| 0:46.0 | we're focused on in order to have a life that goes well for us. |
| 0:51.7 | So today I want to talk about two key factors of living the good life. Here they are. |
| 1:01.0 | One is having a childlike curiosity about life and the other is kindness, |
| 1:08.0 | kindness towards others and ourselves. So let's talk about each of these and see how they play a major |
| 1:17.8 | role in finding happiness in our hearts. When we're younger and we see things or experience things for the first time, |
| 1:29.0 | there's such a beautiful joy in these experiences. If you have children or if you remember being a child, |
| 1:37.0 | perhaps you can think of a time when this happened. I remember the first time my son ever had ice cream. When he |
| 1:46.9 | tasted a ice cream, he didn't know what to think, but after it touched his |
| 1:52.1 | tongue and went into his mouth, this huge smile came on his face, |
| 1:57.9 | and you can see such joy in him for the experience of that ice cream. |
| 2:03.8 | And I'm sure we all have memories like this, the first time we see or taste or feel or |
| 2:09.9 | experience something, it truly takes our breath away. I remember the first time seeing the |
| 2:15.8 | Grand Canyon here in the United States. It was truly breathtaking. Or one time when I was visiting Barcelona, Spain, and I went into the Basilica of the Sacred Family |
| 2:29.7 | or Las Agrata. |
| 2:31.9 | I had no idea what to expect when I walked in there, but when I saw the light shining |
| 2:37.4 | against the floor and the opposite wall and the intricacies within the cathedral. |
| 2:43.7 | I was love speechless. |
| 2:46.3 | We all have experiences like this, but really the key of life is to keep these experiences that we have alive and fresh, where we see things |
| 3:00.0 | as much as possible with child-like eyes for the first time. |
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