#473 Accepting The World As It Is
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Accepting The World As It Is
Accommodate your mind to the way the world works, not to the way you wish the world worked.
1. Acceptance of Reality: At its core, it emphasizes the importance of accepting the world as it is, rather than clinging to idealized expectations. Sometimes there's a gap between how we want things to be and how they actually are. This can lead to frustration and disappointment.
2. Adaptability: The statement suggests that by understanding how the world operates—its rules, systems, and limitations—we can adapt and position ourselves for greater success and inner peace. Stubbornly wishing for things to change without adjusting our approach can create resistance.
3. Pragmatism vs. Idealism: It hints at a balance between striving for positive change and working within the confines of the current reality. Idealistic visions are important catalysts for the future, but practical awareness of how the world functions is crucial for navigating the present.
4. Letting Go of Control: The phrase implies releasing our tight grip on wanting things to conform to our desires. While we can influence our surroundings to some extent, fixating on outcomes outside our control can lead to unnecessary distress.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Life is kind of funny. Throughout our lives we have expectations about the way the world |
| 0:18.0 | should work and then it doesn't. When we're younger, living at home, we just can't wait to get off on our own |
| 0:26.0 | and be independent of our family and our parents. And then we get there and it doesn't quite |
| 0:31.8 | work out the way we thought it would. There's bills now, there's things we have to do, there's work, it's just very different than we expected. |
| 0:40.0 | And then we finally find our soulmate and we get married to him or her. |
| 0:45.0 | And we think it's going to be great now. |
| 0:47.0 | But then we discover that, oh, they come with stuff. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm not all of it's good and we readjust to that. Then we may if we choose |
| 0:56.6 | finally have kids and really look forward to the time where we can be a parent. But then when we realize that we actually |
| 1:04.8 | are a parent, it's different. We don't get to sleep anymore throughout the night because our kids |
| 1:10.0 | get sick or wake up. And when they get a little bit older instead of being |
| 1:13.8 | docile and listening to everything we ask them to do, they're rebellious. They |
| 1:18.9 | contradict what we say. They do things that are quite upsetting to us and then when we reach retirement we may have |
| 1:26.0 | expectations to travel the world and live a care-free life for years and years and it just doesn't turn out that way. Maybe there just isn't enough money to get |
| 1:35.9 | by easily. Maybe our health isn't what we expected it to be. And then as we go through life, |
| 1:42.1 | we look out at the world and say, |
| 1:44.0 | oh, sometimes I'm somewhat happy with what's going on in the world, |
| 1:48.0 | but sometimes I think the world is just crazy. |
| 1:50.0 | It's just these ups and downs of life that we can't control and yet it causes us so much |
| 1:58.0 | distress because we come to the realization we don't have much power over the way things are. There's so little |
| 2:06.4 | we actually have control over. So here's a very important question that all of us have to ask ourselves throughout our lives. |
| 2:15.1 | Do we want to accommodate our minds to the way the world works or to the way we wish the world |
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