#451 The Key to Happiness is: “Malleability”
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Key to Happiness is: “Malleability”
Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace. How do we find happiness with all the changes we must adjust to? In this talk, we explore how "malleability" is the critical ingredient to experience happiness even with all the changes in our lives and worlds.
- The world is changing rapidly and the key to happiness is to be able to adapt to change.
- Malleability is the ability to be flexible and adaptable. It is the ability to change our minds, our behaviors, and our perspectives in order to thrive in a changing world.
- There are a number of things we can do to become more malleable, such as:
- Be open-minded. Be willing to consider new ideas and perspectives, even if they are different from our own.
- Be adaptable. Be willing to change our plans and behaviors in response to changing circumstances.
- Be resilient. Be able to bounce back from setbacks and failures.
- Malleability is essential for happiness in all areas of our lives, from our careers to our relationships to our personal growth.
Here are some additional thoughts on the episode:
- The episode discusses the importance of having a growth mindset. A growth mindset is the belief that our abilities can be developed through hard work and dedication. People with a growth mindset are more likely to embrace challenges and learn from their mistakes.
- The episode also discusses the importance of having a sense of purpose. A sense of purpose gives us a sense of direction and meaning in life. People with a strong sense of purpose are more likely to be happy and fulfilled.
- Overall, the episode provides a valuable message about the importance of malleability for happiness. In a rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever to be able to adapt and change. By becoming more malleable, we can increase our chances of happiness in all areas of our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Have you noticed something recently that's been going on in our world? |
| 0:16.2 | There's been a lot of change and the change seems to be coming at a very rapid pace. |
| 0:22.3 | For some of us, this may be exciting, thrilling times are coming |
| 0:26.4 | in the future and who knows what is going to bring. But I think for many of us it |
| 0:31.7 | brings about fear, anticipation, anxiety, because our future keeps changing |
| 0:39.5 | and rapidly. |
| 0:41.4 | Our world has always been a place of change. Technology changes. People change, leadership |
| 0:48.6 | changes. There's a lot of things in life throughout history that have changed but I think you will agree with me |
| 0:54.6 | that the change of our current world is at a much quicker pace. Of course there's going to be some |
| 1:01.5 | people that get off the grid, that live in isolation, and don't see the rapid change around us as much. |
| 1:08.5 | But these people are more of an anomaly, and nonetheless change will still come to them too ultimately because even if they don't feel the effects of the world change they will fill the effects of their own body changing. |
| 1:22.0 | But the truth is no matter where we lived |
| 1:25.1 | when we lived in history, life has always been about change. Things change. Our |
| 1:31.2 | situations change, our relationship of people change, people that we love leave us, |
| 1:36.8 | they die, they move away. |
| 1:39.2 | We have illnesses that we have to face throughout our life. Sometimes we have career changes, |
| 1:45.0 | sometimes we have relationship changes, sometimes we have health changes. |
| 1:50.0 | But recently, I think many of us are experiencing our world is changing. |
| 1:55.0 | And it isn't changing the same way it used to. |
| 1:58.0 | It's changing faster. |
| 2:01.0 | And because it's changing, the one thing that change brings is uncertainty. |
| 2:07.1 | It doesn't guarantee what the future is going to look like because change has so many |
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