#390 Rules To Live By (Adapting to Other People's Rules)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We all live by rules developed by our upbringing, society, and life experiences. Unfortunately, not everyone lives by our rules. How can we get along with others in life who engage with the world differently than we do? Come explore how to find peace of mind in various situations, even when others are breaking "our" rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you know what one of the |
| 0:08.9 | number one things that is going to cause you to stress in life, get you upset, even mad, are rules. |
| 0:17.0 | But why would rules make me upset? |
| 0:20.0 | After all, most of us like rules. We like it. |
| 0:23.2 | That there's things in place that create harmony in our world |
| 0:26.9 | that make things go smoothly. There's a popular movie series, |
| 0:31.6 | I don't know if you've seen it, called The Purge. |
| 0:34.6 | It's based on the premise where a day's given, where there are no rules. |
| 0:39.3 | People can do whatever they want and they won't be any consequences to what they do. |
| 0:43.0 | And you're probably not surprised that the movie is categorized as a horror movie |
| 0:48.0 | because what this is is horrible. |
| 0:51.0 | We would hate it if there was a day without any rules. I mean could you imagine a day |
| 0:57.7 | where there weren't any rules for the way people drive? I mean there'd be so many accidents and incidences it would just be awful |
| 1:05.7 | rules are good but there's one way that rules get us in trouble which is what I |
| 1:12.4 | want us to focus on the day. And that's that not |
| 1:16.3 | everyone lives by the same rules. Now what I just said may seem obvious, but I actually think we forget about it periodically and when we do and we confront someone that is living by different worlds than we are, then our state of happiness, joy, and peace can go out the window |
| 1:36.4 | because all of a sudden there's a conflict and we often engage with that conflict. |
| 1:42.2 | I remember the first time this really stood out in my life. |
| 1:45.2 | I was traveling for a couple months through India and in India there's a custom there's a |
| 1:51.5 | rule that when you say no you shake your head a certain way, and when you say |
| 1:56.3 | yes, you shake it the same way, but at a different speed. |
| 1:59.9 | So for me, when they were saying yes, I thought they were saying no, but they were saying yes. |
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