#463 How to Get Your Happiness Back
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
How to Get Your Happiness Back
The pursuit of constant happiness is often a road paved with disappointment. The true secret to living a joyful life lies not in expecting smooth sailing, but in learning to navigate the winds of change with a light heart. When we loosen our grip on rigid expectations and embrace the fluidity of life, we open ourselves to a deeper well of contentment. It's not about denying unpleasant surprises, but about accepting them as part of the rich tapestry of existence. With each unexpected turn, we have the opportunity to learn, grow, and discover new paths to fulfillment. So let go of the fixed idea of how things "should" be, and embrace the dynamic journey of life – in its twists and turns, the true treasures of happiness await.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you know what one of the most misconceptions about happiness is? |
| 0:15.0 | Is that happy people are happy all the time? |
| 0:19.0 | That's not true. |
| 0:21.0 | When someone cuts us off on the freeway and it's dangerous, it frightens us. |
| 0:27.3 | When we call customer service because we need their help and we're holding online for |
| 0:31.9 | two hours and they finally pick up and then we get |
| 0:35.7 | disconnected and they don't call us back. We're not happy campers or when we have a |
| 0:41.3 | job that we really like and we lose it and we have to start over again and find a new job. |
| 0:47.0 | We're not happy about that either. |
| 0:50.0 | Or when someone we thought we were going to spend our life with says they don't want to be with us anymore, |
| 0:57.0 | it's hard on our hearts too. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, Dr. Puff, I thought this was a happiness podcast and it was about being happy. And it is. But what's |
| 1:06.6 | going to catch you? It really is if you think that happiness has to be maintained all the time. that's just not how it works. We go through our |
| 1:15.0 | because that's just not how it works. We go through hard times and |
| 1:19.5 | they're challenging. Sometimes they're exhausting. |
| 1:24.4 | But we're going to talk about what do we or can we expect |
| 1:28.6 | when we want to be happy. |
| 1:30.4 | What are the real expectations and what are the real key factors of living a happy life? |
| 1:36.0 | Because there are things that we can do to make our lives go well, not all the time, |
| 1:42.0 | but most of the time. |
| 1:45.4 | What actually causes us to be unhappy is the fact that we think we should be happy all the |
| 1:52.0 | time, because that often means for most people that everything is going well |
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