#405 Benefits of Spending Time Alone
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Benefits of Spending Time Alone
If you want to get to know someone, you must spend time with them. Spending time with someone is also true of us. Unfortunately, we only make a little time to be alone and self-explore. This talk explores the benefits of spending time alone and ways that we avoid being alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If I were to ask you what is the |
| 0:10.2 | hardest thing we can do as humans, What's challenging, what's super difficult, you |
| 0:16.2 | may answer, well, perhaps getting a PhD, that's very challenging, are perhaps coming up with |
| 0:22.1 | an idea, starting a company from scratch, and getting it up and running. |
| 0:27.0 | Or perhaps being addicted to a substance and getting over a quitting that substance, |
| 0:32.0 | perhaps being in a dysfunctional relationship and |
| 0:35.5 | needing to end it even when there are children. We definitely face difficult |
| 0:40.6 | things in life, all of us do sooner or later. But over the course of 30 |
| 0:46.1 | years of helping people improve their lives, do you know what I found to be the |
| 0:50.6 | most challenging things for people to do on a consistent basis? |
| 0:54.4 | It's spending time alone, really alone, with no distractions, and just listening, |
| 1:01.9 | listening to what's going on inside of us. |
| 1:05.0 | That is incredibly hard for almost everyone to do and yet at the same time, I'm going to argue it is the most wonderful thing we can do for our |
| 1:17.8 | souls and our lives. Well, first, why would this be hard? It sounds so simple. I mean we come home, we go to a quiet place, perhaps sit in the backyard or to our room, and we just sit and we're still with no distractions. |
| 1:34.3 | That sounds a very easy thing to do, Dr. Pove. |
| 1:37.1 | Why do you find that hard for people to do? |
| 1:41.1 | It is hard, it's incredibly hard, and let me explain why. We have a lot of things going on inside of us. |
| 1:48.0 | Our thoughts, our feelings are sometimes often overwhelming. |
| 1:53.0 | And what we do is to deal with them or to breathe truthful, to not deal with them, |
| 1:58.0 | is we distract. |
| 2:00.0 | And there are so many distractions in our world. |
| 2:03.0 | When life is somewhat challenging and we're having long days or just bumps throughout the day, |
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