#482 Personal Growth: Lessons from Others' Failures
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Personal Growth: Lessons from Others' Failures
Have you ever wished you could avoid the pitfalls and setbacks that inevitably come with navigating life? The good news is, you don't have to learn everything the hard way! In "Personal Growth: Lessons from Others' Failures" we delve into the missteps and mistakes of others – in relationships, careers, finances, and more – extracting valuable wisdom for you to apply to your own life. Discover how to sidestep common blunders, accelerate your growth, and achieve your goals faster by learning from those who've gone before you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Life sometimes can be incredibly confusing. |
| 0:14.0 | We want to have a good life, we want to be happy. |
| 0:17.0 | We want to find peace in our lives and wake up in the morning, |
| 0:20.0 | grateful for that new day, and put her head down at the end of the night, and be grateful for that new day and put her head down at the end of the night and be grateful for that past day. |
| 0:26.0 | But it isn't that easy. How do we live a good life? |
| 0:30.0 | A metaphor would be like learning to ride a bike. |
| 0:33.0 | Some of us had parents that helped us, that guided us, that gave us instruction. |
| 0:37.0 | I remember when I was riding a bike, my father took me on top of a grass hill, |
| 0:42.0 | so that if I fell out the bike I would just land on the grass |
| 0:45.2 | that was very kind and loving of him. |
| 0:48.0 | But not every parent's that way. |
| 0:50.3 | Some parents, when they teach us things, teach us the hard way they want us to learn through the school of hard knocks. |
| 0:56.0 | Or some of us had parents that didn't want to teach us anything. |
| 0:59.5 | And it felt like the only way we could learn was by learning through failure. |
| 1:04.8 | I've created this podcast to help us navigate life's course on how to live a good life. |
| 1:11.2 | But I want to talk today about another thing that can be really helpful in the course of living a good life. |
| 1:17.0 | Because we learn how to live a good life or not a good life based on what our experiences and the teachers we had in our past. |
| 1:25.0 | Our parents, our friends, our colleagues, our experiences, all these things together combined |
| 1:31.6 | to create a life that we're leading right now and it |
| 1:34.6 | may not be a good life that we're leading so that's why we're listening to this |
| 1:38.2 | podcast to learn how to have a good life. There's another way a really good way that I have found incredibly effective on learning |
| 1:47.1 | how to live a good life. |
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