Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know what it is about the number three but it seems to have a lot of

qualities to it that describe life

For example, did you ever hear of the movie The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, that came on in 1966

and starred with Clint Eastwood? The movie portrays three type of people. The Good, the bad, and the ugly. It may be a silly analogy, but

it's interesting. We gravitate towards three. I mean think about wealth. We think of wealthy

people, poor people people and average people or

we think of intelligence smart people not so smart people and average people or think of

religion there's a Trinity in Christianity, God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus.

Or in Hinduism, there's Shiva, there's Vishnu and Brahma. Given the significance of the number three that comes out

throughout life I want to talk about how three plays a role in how we find purpose in

our lives or how we end up living our lives in a certain way.

I know we're born in very many different circumstances, but in life I believe there are three

ways in which we can interact with the circumstances that we've been born with.

There are three choices we have as far as how our lives are going to unfold as we live our life.

And they have to do with growth.

As we live out our years of life, we have three choices

that will make throughout our lives. We may go from one category to another,

but we're going to be making three choices throughout our life. Whether we're aware of which choice

we're making, we will be making one of these three because in life we progress we change we

evolve we experience life and as we do that we have these three choices that we can make.

Let me just first describe them before I go into detail of which each of them is.

The first one is no growth.

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