#326 Happiness - How Friendships Make Life Better
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Friendships can add or subtract so much from our lives, especially the friendship that we have with our significant others. In this talk, we explore the importance of finding and keeping great friends.
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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. If you've chosen to listen to this |
| 0:09.6 | podcast, my guess is you're acutely aware of how life can be very hard at times, |
| 0:16.0 | incredibly challenging and just overwhelming. |
| 0:20.0 | But mind you, sometimes life can be quite good, even exquisite. |
| 0:25.0 | And if we're choosing today to improve our lives, |
| 0:28.0 | it can be incredibly helpful to be able to differentiate between what are we in control of and what do we not in |
| 0:36.2 | control of. And there's a lot of things that we're not in control over. We didn't choose our |
| 0:41.7 | parents, we didn't choose our parents. We didn't choose our genetics. We don't choose |
| 0:46.1 | what happens in the world and the economy and plagues and diseases. But not all negative |
| 0:52.2 | either. For some people school academics is quite easy for |
| 0:56.4 | them others are gifted artists. Some people are just physically talented in |
| 1:01.8 | the regards to a certain sport or activity. |
| 1:05.0 | So as we go through this quagmire of life, discovering things that were in control of, |
| 1:11.3 | learning about things that were not in control of, and with that |
| 1:15.0 | understanding we then can influence the things that we are in control of. |
| 1:19.5 | And you know what's great news? |
| 1:22.8 | One of the main things we're in control of |
| 1:25.9 | is our friends. |
| 1:27.3 | We get to choose our friends |
| 1:29.7 | who we hang out with, |
| 1:31.2 | who we spend time with, and that's wonderful because our friends can have |
| 1:36.1 | a huge impact in our state of happiness. |
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