#478 Inevitable Challenges Controllable Responses
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Inevitable Challenges Controllable Responses
Life is full of curveballs – unexpected setbacks, difficult people, and moments that test our limits. While we can't control the challenges we face, we always have power over how we react. The "Inevitable Challenges, Controllable Responses" podcast explores this empowering idea. We'll delve into strategies for developing resilience, emotional intelligence, and a growth mindset to turn adversity into opportunities. Our goal is to help you shift from feeling like a victim of circumstance to becoming the conscious architect of your own responses.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast, I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:10.0 | Probably one of the most perennial questions throughout history has been, |
| 0:16.0 | why do bad things happen to good people? |
| 0:19.0 | And to be honest, I think we can broaden that to say, |
| 0:22.0 | why do bad things happen to anybody? |
| 0:25.6 | You probably heard of the story of Job in the Jewish Bible or the Christian Old Testament |
| 0:30.9 | where he's put through a variety of very incredibly challenging circumstances, which it may not be completely clear why this is happening, |
| 0:40.0 | but it does seem like he's being punished for something that he didn't do. |
| 0:45.0 | I think how this relates to us is when we do go through difficult times, |
| 0:50.0 | like the love of our life asks for a divorce or we get diagnosed with a very |
| 0:55.8 | crippling disease or something incredibly painful or we have a business or job that |
| 1:01.4 | fails and now we're worried or really sick about how we're going to make it in the future. |
| 1:08.0 | We question, why is this happening to me? |
| 1:11.0 | And perhaps you know people that have explanations to why bad |
| 1:15.1 | things happen to good people, but what about children? Are children bad? Do they |
| 1:20.4 | deserve bad things that happen to them? |
| 1:23.0 | I know some people talk about karma and a variety of other things to try to explain these |
| 1:28.8 | incredibly challenging and difficult situations, but when we're going through something personal, |
| 1:34.8 | whatever explanation we may hear, it can just be hard because sometimes there just |
| 1:41.0 | aren't any explanations, or if they they are they're not very good at least when we're going through that really painful process |
| 1:47.6 | It's like this just sucks |
| 1:51.0 | But this is a happiness podcast and of course I don't want to be pessimistic. |
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