#316 Happiness - The Greatest Wealth: "Contentment"
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Wealth is such an allure for most people. "If only I were wealthy, then..." But does wealth necessarily bring us the happiness we are looking for? Is there perhaps a greater wealth than money.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you ever dream about |
| 0:09.0 | winning the lotto and if you did what would you do with all that money? |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, it sounds amazing, doesn't it? |
| 0:18.0 | To win so much money and to have all our worries and fears be gone. Here in the US, the largest winning lotto so far, has |
| 0:27.6 | been $1.6 billion, and that was split between three people people so each of them received over a half a billion dollars. |
| 0:36.0 | For most of us on the planet that number is just inconceivable |
| 0:41.0 | we just wouldn't even know what to do with it and for sure it would take all |
| 0:46.4 | our worries and fears and pains away and our lives would be great. Maybe. For most of us this just seems like too big of a stretch. |
| 0:56.4 | We'll probably never get there. But we may dream about getting into a profession |
| 1:02.1 | or marrying someone who has a lot of money from the work that we do. I mean that's not inconceivable. |
| 1:10.0 | We could go to school, we could do well in school. We could get a profession like a lawyer or a doctor or a dentist and then get a really good job make a lot of money and again life would be awesome. It would be great all our worries and fears would be |
| 1:26.1 | gone and everything would just be spectacular maybe or perhaps with time as we've lived life. These goals too seem unattainable. |
| 1:38.8 | So what we focus on is working hard, making enough money to pay off our bills, and at some point being able |
| 1:45.8 | to retire because we have a little bit of a nest egg, and with that money we can begin to |
| 1:51.2 | travel and explore all over the world. It will be wonderful. |
| 1:57.0 | Maybe. |
| 1:59.0 | You're probably wondering why do I keep ending each of these scenarios with a maybe? |
| 2:04.0 | I mean, isn't wealth really the path towards happiness? |
| 2:08.0 | Aren't wealthier people or people that have things better off than I am? |
| 2:12.0 | I mean, after all, if I had what they had, things better off than I am? |
| 2:12.6 | I mean, after all, if I had what they had, my life would be great. |
| 2:18.1 | Maybe. |
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