#322 Happiness - How to Improve on Yourself
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Personal growth is beautifully enhanced when two things occur. First, we see our struggles as growth opportunities. Second, we find teacher(s) who can help us find our way to peace and happiness.
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About the Happiness Podcast:
Do you ever wonder what it takes to lead a peaceful, happy life? Are you curious about the specific steps involved in a self-actualized, limitless life? Are you struggling with anxiety or depression? Or are you just plain tired and want some help? We explore all these concerns and more every week on the Happiness Podcast, which has been downloaded over 9 million times since its inception. Happiness does not happen by chance, but because we take specific actions in our lives to create it.
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D., author of 13 books, TV show host, Psychology Today blogger, and corporate trainer, has been studying the actions it takes to reach the highest levels of human achievement for decades, and he wants to share what he knows with you. Come and explore, along with millions of others from the Happiness Podcast, Dr. Puff books and Psychology Today blog, private clients and corporate workshop attendees, the specific steps to take so that you can soar in your life.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. My guess is if you're |
| 0:10.6 | listening to this podcast right now, you're interested in growth. |
| 0:15.3 | You want to know how to improve yourself and make your life better as you continue to move |
| 0:20.5 | forward in life. |
| 0:22.4 | Of all the variety of things that we can pursue in life, like love, |
| 0:27.2 | like wealth, like fame, I believe this, the pursuit of personal growth, of personal development, is the highest pursuit that we can |
| 0:38.3 | go after during our lives. |
| 0:41.9 | And I believe there are two aspects of personal growth that are just |
| 0:46.2 | exquisite, beautiful because of how they manifest in our lives. The first is, of all the things we they are fleeting and we all know people who have these things and are still incredibly |
| 1:05.8 | unhappy but when we pursue personal growth what we'll find is that that leads |
| 1:11.6 | to contentment that leads to contentment, that leads to truly lasting happiness regardless of the circumstances that we're in. |
| 1:19.0 | Because when we focus on personal growth, what happens is we take the locus of control from the external, |
| 1:26.4 | like wealth, like fame, and move it internal. |
| 1:30.1 | How are we doing right now? That we are in control of. |
| 1:34.0 | And there are so many things in the external world that we just don't have control over. |
| 1:40.0 | Did we choose which country, which environment we were born into it? |
| 1:45.0 | Did we choose the parents that we had? |
| 1:47.6 | Did we choose the gifts that we came with? |
| 1:50.0 | Are we exceptionally smart or is school challenging for us? |
| 1:54.4 | There are so many things that we don't have control over. |
| 1:58.1 | But the one thing that we all have control over |
| 2:01.9 | is our response to our world. |
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