Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Have you ever really wanted to learn to do something? Maybe you're

interested when you're younger in learning how to play the piano or painting or a sport like lacrosse something that you wanted to do.

Well in order to do these things which you don't know how what really helps is to find a really good teacher.

And then I think with a lot of effort and that really good teacher, we can get good at things.

When my son was younger younger he developed an interest in the cello and he was

very naturally talented at playing it. And so we looked around to find him a really good teacher and we were fortunate because there was a teacher locally who had once played for the Queen of England and she was an excellent teacher very patient, very kind.

And with my son practicing and her teaching him, he got quite good at playing the cello. But with many youth, they go on and try new things, and

though he doesn't play today we're hopeful that

someday he might pick it up again. When we want to learn a new skill it's really

helpful to find the best teacher that we can. But let's say our son is Ludwig von Beethoven.

Who do we find to be his teacher? Do you know who it was? It was Joseph Heiden. So if we're going to learn something new,

one, we have to have passion for it. Two, a little bit of skill is helpful. And three three I think finding a really good teacher is very

helpful and even if we don't have that second part the natural talent I still

think we can get really good at something. It takes more work.

It takes more effort. But I do think work and effort are very important along with an excellent teacher. And when it comes to

happiness I really don't think there's much difference. There are some people that

are naturally prone to being more happy.

They just have a tendency to see the cup half full more than half empty.

But even with these people because life can be hard,

I do think there's a lot of work to being happy and we have to find

good teachers. Teachers help us get good at what we want to do and if we want to find contentment and happiness in our life, we need

to learn from people around us that are doing that or learn the secrets of happiness and contentment.

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