#376 Happiness - Don't Give Up
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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One of the most demanding challenges we all face in life is how do we respond to unkind actions directed at us. At times, the world can be cruel, and we cannot control it. But what we do have control over is how we respond. In this talk, we explore two negative responses to unkindness and how instead, we can stay kind throughout our lives.
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. There's one thing that we all have in common that if we live long enough sooner or later another person other people are going to be cruel to us. It's impossible to get through life and not have someone along the way be unkind towards us. |
| 0:26.7 | And for many of us, lots of people are unkind towards us. |
| 0:31.5 | And sadly, it can start incredibly early even before we enter school. We can find people |
| 0:38.5 | that we're living with that chose to have us or our siblings are cruel and unkind towards us. |
| 0:46.8 | And then once we enter school life, it's just pretty much inevitable that that's going |
| 0:51.6 | to happen. People are going to be unkind towards us. |
| 0:54.9 | They're going to say things that are hurtful. They're going to do things to try to |
| 1:00.7 | humiliate us and shame us. I remember in junior high, one of my friends who was a neighbor |
| 1:07.8 | of mine had a sister who was in my class, and she had an eye that protruded that was bulging out of her eye socket. |
| 1:15.0 | It didn't bother me at all and I was friends with her too, but clearly it was something that other people could see. |
| 1:21.0 | I wasn't close friends with her so I didn't know her story or all that happened to her, but one day I came to my class, and a professor that I dearly loved got so angry at the class because of her. People have been teasing her about her |
| 1:37.8 | eye and he was so infuriated with the way they were acting towards her. he gave the entire class a real scolding. |
| 1:45.0 | But I remember to this day wondering, how was it for her? |
| 1:49.0 | What was she experiencing? |
| 1:51.0 | And after that moment, I tried to be especially kind towards her because I realized her life had to be hard. |
| 1:59.0 | Other kids clearly were abusing her, were hurting her because of the way she looked. |
| 2:06.4 | And I was very saddened by that. |
| 2:08.7 | And my professor was very mad about that. |
| 2:12.3 | We all know stories about people being unkind towards others. We've probably seen it |
| 2:19.2 | thousands of times throughout our lives whether in movies, television shows, or in real life. |
| 2:26.3 | We may be the recipient of their unkindness. |
| 2:30.8 | It is truly something that we cannot avoid if we're human we're going to experience it. |
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