#332 Happiness - The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Throughout our lives, we have stories running through our heads. Sometimes these stories can be uplifting and supportive. Othertimes these stories can be unkind and self-harming. In this talk, we will explores ways to cultivate beautiful stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Have you ever noticed how two people can go through the exact same experience and yet have a very different |
| 0:14.3 | story about that experience. This past weekend I went up to Big Bear. It's a mountain |
| 0:20.0 | town near Los Angeles and it's beautiful. I go up there pretty often because before my kids |
| 0:26.2 | were born I had a home up there, a log home that I used to live in. And then over the years I've |
| 0:30.8 | taken my kids up there many times so I have a lot of fond memories of Big Bear. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, this past weekend was another one of those trips. |
| 0:38.0 | And there's a place up in Big Bear called Alpine Slide. |
| 0:42.0 | They have human-made slides that go through the mountains, and they're very safe. |
| 0:46.5 | You just have to control how fast you go. As I was getting into my tobagan, I started |
| 0:51.8 | talking to one of the people that was working there because it took |
| 0:54.8 | a little while for the toboggan to get in place and go up the hill. |
| 0:58.4 | Well as we were talking I discovered that she had moved up there about 20 years ago with her husband and they had gotten |
| 1:04.6 | divorced and she chose to stay living up there and now she was working at Alpine Slide |
| 1:08.8 | and she was telling me what a lucky person she was because she got to work with happy people all day long. |
| 1:15.4 | And she genuinely seemed very happy at her job and what she was doing. |
| 1:20.3 | And then off I went on my ride. |
| 1:22.3 | But I was thinking about her situation afterwards and I thought |
| 1:26.0 | she had two ways to look at her situation. The one way she could have looked at it, which she didn't, |
| 1:31.1 | she could say, okay, I'm a middle-aged woman, she was probably |
| 1:34.6 | in her early 50s, is my guess, she was divorced, and most likely she was probably making minimum |
| 1:40.4 | wage at her job. Well, as I said said one way you can look at it is wow my life is a |
| 1:46.4 | disaster I got divorce I'm ekeying by it's very expensive up here I'm probably |
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