#334 Happiness - The Secret of How to Stay Kind (and Happy)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Being kind is facilitated by first, acknowledging that unkindness is never justified. Second, understanding the difference between feeling anger and acting unkindly. Third, implementing strategies that help reduce the anger in our hearts and minds. With these three things in place, we can become very kind (and happy) souls.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. With the expansion of |
| 0:09.1 | social media, if we didn't know it before, people can be really unkind towards each other. |
| 0:15.0 | We may watch or hear so much of it that we just think the world is now a very unkind |
| 0:21.0 | place and people in it are just jerks. So we kind of throw in the towel and say, |
| 0:26.7 | well if they're going to be a jerk to me I'm sure enough going to be a jerk back to them. |
| 0:31.9 | And on and on it goes until it does seem like so many people participate in |
| 0:37.1 | unkind acts. But I believe if we really search our hearts we all know people that rarely, if ever, get angry. They seem to |
| 0:46.6 | stay calm in all situations or at least kind. How do these superheroes do that? I'm calling them superheroes because I think these are the people we should look up to |
| 0:58.0 | for a variety of reasons. One, they're great examples for all of us, too. |
| 1:03.0 | Their lives are just better. |
| 1:04.5 | If you get to know them, they're a lot happier than the grumps out there. |
| 1:08.5 | And three, they're just beautiful souls that I think we can all emulate or at least strive to. |
| 1:15.0 | And in today's podcast, I want to talk about how we can develop this superhero strength of kindness no matter what. |
| 1:23.8 | When it comes to anger, there really are two parts to our anger. |
| 1:27.7 | The first one is what we feel, but the second one is what we do with it and they're completely different. |
| 1:34.4 | Any if not all of us at times can feel anger. |
| 1:38.1 | The difference is between people who are kind and people who just give others a piece of their mind is that kind people, |
| 1:46.5 | though they may feel angry, they don't express it. They choose to do other things with it. And that's really their secret. It's not that they don't get angry. |
| 1:56.7 | We can all get angry. The difference is they'll pause and they'll say, what can I do with this anger instead and that's what we're going to |
| 2:05.8 | explore today. I don't think many of us would look up to a person who's drunk or on drugs |
| 2:12.0 | and look at their behavior and say that's really |
| 2:15.0 | commendable behavior. But do you know why some people who drink a lot and end up |
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