#325 Happiness - Slow & Steady Wins the Happiness Race
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to happiness, slow and steady progress works much better than fast and impulsive actions. There is wisdom in Aesop's fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," which suggests: slow and steady wins the "happiness" race.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I live in Southern California and |
| 0:10.1 | a lot of Southern Californians during the weekend go over to Vegas have a weekend get away and just to enjoy themselves. |
| 0:18.0 | And besides the shows, the good food and all the beautiful resorts that are there, there's one other thing that draws people to Vegas, and that's gambling. |
| 0:28.0 | I remember years ago about hearing a story of a man who was working in the corporate world and he was just |
| 0:35.2 | done. He was exhausted, he was worn out and he just wanted to enjoy life with his wife. |
| 0:40.8 | So he quit his job, sold his home, and together they bought a motor home, |
| 0:45.7 | and they were going to travel around the United States for the rest of their lives, |
| 0:49.5 | living on his savings, and really just savoring the beauty of life. Well the first |
| 0:55.7 | destination on their trip was Vegas and when they get there the husband gets |
| 1:00.8 | tired and decides to go to bed but but his wife, who is very excited for their new adventure of life, |
| 1:06.4 | decides to stay up and just gamble a little bit longer. |
| 1:09.2 | Well, when he wakes up in the morning, he can't find his wife, and he goes downstairs and finds her, |
| 1:16.2 | and she's so upset, she's crying, and she's just hysterical. |
| 1:20.1 | And after he spends some time talking to her, he realizes that what she had done is she had gambled all night long and tapped into their retirement and everything that they had, and they were now broke. The only thing they had left was their motorhome. So after |
| 1:36.0 | working 20 years saving for his retirement and now having enough to live on if they lived sparingly. It was all gone in one night. |
| 1:46.6 | You may know someone or even yourself who could share a similar story. |
| 1:51.5 | It's not that we're destined to have lives that are tough. It's just that it's so easy to make |
| 1:57.5 | choices that have negative consequences. I mean we're at a party, we're enjoying our friends, and we may have had a little bit too much to drink, but we're not worried about it. |
| 2:06.5 | So we drive home, and then we get a DUI and deal with that. |
| 2:10.5 | Or maybe we crash the car and injure someone and we have a lot more |
| 2:15.0 | serious consequences now to deal with. Life can change in a heartbeat, especially |
| 2:21.0 | when we make fast and rapid choices. |
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