Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Recently I was watching a documentary on Rembrandt. I don't know if you like art, but

Rembrandt is one of my favorite artists. Because I liked him for so long I knew

a lot about his life, but I learned something new in this video.

He's from the Netherlands and he became one of the greatest artists of all time.

Even in his lifetime he was esteemed for being an incredible artist. But later in his life he had some very serious

tragedies. First he went bankrupt and lost everything that he had accumulated over the years.

Then, his wife, who he painted often, died, and finally his son, his only son who made

it to adulthood, died before he he did and as you can imagine it was

incredibly tragic and upsetting to him so what did he do I think many if not most of

us with severe life altering tragedies come would give up

we'd say we're done I can't do this anymore we We find ways to numb ourselves and then just wait to die, particularly

when it's towards the end of our life already. We would just give up. But what did Rembrandt do? He did not do this. Do you know what he did? He kept painting.

He created beautiful pieces of art that we all now get to enjoy and he kept doing it

until the day he died he had his passion his passion was to create beautiful pieces of art and he did it not even knowing if he be remembered or people would even like his work in the future.

But that was his passion. That's what drove him. And he kept

doing it till he took his last breath. And did you know, throughout history, there are so many examples of this of people that have

passions and they do it until they take their last breath.

Recently I talked about Marcel Proust who wrote in Search of Lost Time and he wrote his book

His Magnum Opus which is considered one of the greatest novels that ever was written, though at the time

wasn't even finished, but he finished it from his bed as he was slowly dying. Now of course there are countless and I do mean countless people

that have their passion too that we don't know about. This isn't about being famous, about being remembered.

This today I want to talk about is finding our passion so that when we do take our last breath,

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