#413 Are Expectations Good or Bad?
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Are Expectations Good or Bad?
Are having expectations helpful or harmful for us in the long run? The danger with expectations is our expectations is that sometimes they aren't met, which can cause us stress, anger, and anxiety. And even life fulfills our expectations; they only give us a little satisfaction. Explore positive ways to live life with or without expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. River Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | Expectations. We can have a lot of them. We work hard all week, we save our money, and then on the weekend we make |
| 0:16.3 | reservations at our favorite restaurant. When we get there, we have expectations that we'll |
| 0:21.6 | be able to find parking. We'll have expectations that we'll be able to find parking. |
| 0:23.0 | We'll have expectations that they'll have our favorite dish. |
| 0:26.0 | We'll have expectations that the service will be great |
| 0:30.0 | because it's our favorite restaurant and everything will just be wonderful. |
| 0:34.6 | And sometimes our expectations work out, but sometimes they don't. And you know what's |
| 0:39.9 | amazing? One bad expectation that doesn't come true can ruin the whole event that we were looking |
| 0:46.6 | forward to that we had expectations about. |
| 0:50.1 | So when we get to our restaurant, we are able to find parking, the service as good as always, |
| 0:56.2 | and the main menu was excellent. |
| 0:58.6 | The appetizers were superb. |
| 1:00.9 | The dinner drinks were as good as always. But then when it comes time to order our |
| 1:06.3 | dessert which we love so much they don't have it. They ran out earlier and |
| 1:11.2 | they don't have what we want and our expectations of ending our evening with that exquisite dessert |
| 1:19.0 | ruins the whole evening even though everything up at that point had met our expectations except for that one |
| 1:26.4 | dessert dish and they had other options but we wanted our dish and because they |
| 1:32.1 | didn't have it it ended up ruining our evening even though |
| 1:36.7 | it was a beautiful evening up to that point. |
| 1:40.0 | Now this may seem like a silly example even though though it's true, it happens all the time. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm sure you've seen it at restaurants, where people get very upset over one thing and |
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