#377 Happiness - How To Stop Being Mean
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes people do some very unkind, mean things to each other. In this talk, we explore how they happen and, more importantly, how to prevent them from ever happening. We can have skills that keep our emotions "safe," and kindness is always the better path.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | The Dark Side. Why would anyone ever turn to the dark side? |
| 0:15.0 | What I mean by that, why do we turn to other people and hurt them sometimes in such horrific ways. |
| 0:23.0 | Why would any human being choose to go to the dark side? |
| 0:27.0 | As you probably can imagine, I've heard a lot of dark stories |
| 0:32.0 | in the course of my career as a clinical psychologist. |
| 0:36.1 | And sometimes it really does take my breath away what one human being can do it to another. |
| 0:42.0 | But you don't have to do what I do in order to see the dark side out in our world. |
| 0:47.1 | We can see it, we can read about it, we can experience it throughout our lives. The media has gotten very good at displaying to |
| 0:56.2 | us how dark human beings can get. And if we live long enough we're probably going to |
| 1:01.6 | see personal examples of it, people that we know that |
| 1:05.3 | turn to the dark side. In my own case I remember once many many years ago knowing a couple that I had spent times with, that even been to my house. |
| 1:15.6 | I knew them fairly well. |
| 1:17.4 | I knew he had a lot of psychological issues, but presumably he was working on them and was getting better. |
| 1:24.0 | As relationships do, we fell out of touch and I hadn't heard from them for several years. |
| 1:28.0 | And then someone reached out to me that also knew them and said, |
| 1:31.0 | did you hear what happened? |
| 1:32.0 | And I said, no no and the act that occurred |
| 1:34.8 | was so horrific that it made front-page news. They had had a couple of children who |
| 1:40.3 | were in their early teens and they were going through a very terrible divorce. |
| 1:44.7 | Well, one day, when he had his kids, he came home and he shot both his children and then |
| 1:51.8 | took the gun and committed suicide. |
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