#387 Happiness - How to Change the World
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The world can seem like it is such a mess sometimes. Our worries can wake us up at 3 in the morning. Homelessness, inflation, addictions, global warming, minority rights, and the list can go on and on. How do with help our world and at the same time not get overwhelmed or burnout? It is possible with a couple of crucial steps.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know if you can relate to this, but I think a lot of people wake up in the morning get on their phones |
| 0:15.4 | Check out how the world is doing and think wow what a mess |
| 0:20.7 | Nowadays I think that's a very common experience for lots of people. |
| 0:25.0 | We may be concerned about world hunger, inflation, global warming, |
| 0:31.0 | homelessness, drug abuse, sometimes it's personal. |
| 0:35.8 | We may know someone who's struggling with a drug addiction and afraid we're going to get that |
| 0:39.7 | call someday that they've had an overdose. We may watch the news about people on fixed income |
| 0:45.6 | they are having a hard time paying their rent and getting by, and perhaps facing |
| 0:50.7 | homelessness. We may have strong political or religious beliefs and |
| 0:55.8 | when we watch what the world is doing against our beliefs it infuriates us. |
| 1:00.3 | There's a lot in the world that can cause us a lot of emotional struggles and stress. |
| 1:07.0 | So in today's talk, I want to explore what we can do to make this better, so we don't have so much stressors in wakeless nights worrying about |
| 1:16.7 | what's happening in our world or in our own lives. There's a story I heard long ago. I'm not sure who said it, but it's a beautiful story about |
| 1:28.0 | this, how to change our world. It's about a man who discovers that there are many things in the world that he can step on. |
| 1:36.8 | There are thorns, there are rocks, there are sharp objects, and if he steps on them, they'll cut his feet. |
| 1:42.2 | So what he decides to do is cover. And if he steps on them, they'll cut his feet. |
| 1:43.0 | So what he decides to do is cover the entire world with leather so that his feet won't |
| 1:48.4 | get injured. |
| 1:49.4 | That's how he's going to solve this problem in his world. |
| 1:53.0 | Then he thinks about it and he says, |
| 1:55.0 | maybe instead what I should do is make leather shoes to protect my feet |
| 2:00.0 | instead of covering the whole world with leather. Now you may be thinking, that's a very |
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