#421 How Do I Know Who I Am

Happiness Podcast

Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How Do I Know Who I Am

We take on so many labels during our lifetime. And sometimes, they completely change. I am a rich person; I am a depressed person; I am a wife and mother. But what would happen if we stopped identifying with any label and just flowed with life? Might we find that freedom and happiness, which are always there, come rushing back in?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. The second we wake up in the
0:09.2	morning we take on labels and lots of them. I'm rich, I'm poor, I'm depressed, I'm married, I'm single, I'm tall, I'm smart, I'm dumb, I'm fat, I'm sleek, I'm smart I'm dumb I'm fat I'm sleek I'm muscular I'm wise I'm stupid I'm sad we take
0:30.9	on so many labels throughout the day that we don't even realize that we're doing it.
0:36.0	But the second we label ourselves, we put ourselves in a box.
0:40.0	We limit who we are, what we are, and what we might do that day. If we're a teacher that comes
0:48.2	with a lot of adjectives, we're a helper, we're a caretaker, we like children.
0:53.9	If we're a doctor that comes with a lot of different labels,
0:57.2	we are a helper, we're rich, we're intelligent,
1:00.8	we're seen with respect. If we take on a different label, I live with my parents, I'm
1:06.8	unemployed, that comes with a lot of different labels. If we look in the mirror and we take on the label that I'm fat, I'm ugly, that comes with a lot of labels, it comes with a lot of emotions.
1:20.0	But could you imagine if we woke up one morning and didn't take on any labels throughout the day
1:26.8	How different our world would look because with these labels we filter everything in our lives.
1:34.7	In the process of filtering things, we filter a lot of things out.
1:39.9	And mostly what we're filtering out is life.
1:43.4	Because labels put us in categories.
1:46.3	Labels are like putting boundaries around us
1:48.9	in which we need to behave.
1:51.0	So when we meet someone and we tell them, for example, we're a dentist, they're going to put us in a box.
1:56.0	We're going to put ourselves in a box.
1:58.0	Dentists behave certain way. They do certain things.
2:01.0	It comes with certain behaviors.
2:03.1	If we tell people we're a mother, again, it comes with certain labels, certain expectations.
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