Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

Anger. Why do we get angry and how do we keep ourselves from being angry

so that we can live happy lives.

As a child, I grew up in Iowa,

and every summer we could expect one thing to happen.

As the summer progressed, the mosquitoes would start coming out. And as a summer grew longer, there

be more and more mosquitoes. And what you do is a couple things. First, what we'd have to do is protect

ourselves from the mosquitoes.

We put bug spray on and we may start a fire because they usually came out in the evening.

And then if they bit you, you would just wipe them away and the key was not to scratch it but to just leave it alone and after

a while the itching would go away. If you scratched it it got worse. But every summer we knew

they were coming and we didn't get upset, we didn't get angry over it unless of course there was something

wrong with us we just dealt with it because life has mosquitoes in the summer in Iowa.

I never saw this but I'm sure it could have happened where people would get really

angry over having mosquitoes and saying why are the mosquitoes why are they here this is wrong

and have their day or their life or their summer ruined because

the mosquitoes. I mean that sounds very silly and I never saw that. But that's what we do with

our anger. We, metaphorically, let other things which happen in life like mosquitoes, upset us, get us angry, and sometimes even ruin our lives.

Let's explore this together and figure out how to not let our anger destroy us.

First, let's explore why do we get angry? Why do we let situations get angry,

situations get us upset.

The first thing is that we do is we assume that the other person

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