Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you ever wonder what really matters? In our lives, what's important? What do we focus on? What do we try to change, grow, affect in ways that improve our lives and others around us?

I remember a friend of mine once told me the story. I'm sure it's not hers,

but it was a good story. She said, when a person's on their deathbed, they never say, I sure wish I spent more time at work. But what do we wish

we spent more time at? In this journey we call life. What's important? I met a man once who didn't want to make enough

for himself. He wanted to make so much money so that even his grandchildren wouldn't have to worry about money.

Perhaps that's what's important.

Another person may say, I want to change the world.

I want to get into a position where I have a lot of influence

over other people and make huge differences on the lives of people. Is that what's

important? Or maybe it's discovering something that will help

humanity live a better life in the future like the cure to cancer. Is that what's

important? I mean the list can go on and on of what's

important. What are we here for? I think there's many ways to approach this question, but one of them is how do people do that

are pursuing things that perhaps we consider important?

And I think that's where biography, studying the lives of people who have lived lives that we may look up to and see how did their lives turn out.

The super wealthy did they turn out well.

The super famous did they turn out well.

The people that really give their lives to others.

Did that work for them?

And I think we'll find in all those situations that it didn't.

It doesn't always work when we sacrifice for others.

When we become famous,

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