Welcome to the Happiness Podcast, I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Many years ago I went on vacation for a week and it was at a resort in Mexico.

And it was one of these all-inclusive resorts where everything was provided you just paid one fee.

But the unique thing about this resort was it had activities

and these activities were centered on sporting type events.

For example, they had volleyball, they had yoga, they had rock climbing,

they had hiking, they had running, they had volleyball, they had all kinds of activities. They even had one that was set up like a circus

so you could go out and swing and land on a net below you. But as you can imagine, I was pretty

excited about this vacation because I'd never been on one like this before.

So when I arrived I decided I wanted to try every activity at least once.

And I did and it was so much fun. Some things I was not bad

at but some things I was really bad at because I'd never tried them before.

And like I said it was a really enjoyable vacation. But there's one

thing I noticed that surprised me because there are people there mostly from the U.S. and

some from Mexico. And what almost everyone did is they did one activity

pretty much their entire time that they were there. I was surprised by this.

And what I noticed was they did activities that they were good at

and if they didn't know how to do something else

or if they weren't good at it, they wouldn't try it.

Now was pretty much categorical. Pretty much everyone stayed within one

to maybe three activities that they were good at, and they just did these activities every day.

And mind you, there's nothing wrong with doing what you enjoy.

But the inquisitive person that I am, I kind of ask people what made you decide to

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