#492 Against the Grain: Choosing Kindness in a Harsh World
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Against the Grain: Choosing Kindness in a Harsh World is a podcast that explores the radical idea that even in the face of life's challenges, cultivating a soft heart—filled with kindness, compassion, and positivity—is not only possible but essential for a truly successful life. Join us as we delve into the power of choosing gentleness as a form of resilience, and discover how embracing kindness can transform our lives and the world around us.
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| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. When I was growing up, my father had a cousin who loved Motor Soccer Racing, particularly dirt bikes. Well, he ended up having three sons and he was going to get them as excited about motorcycle racing as he was. And not only |
| 0:24.4 | did he want his sons to ride motorcycles, he wanted them to race motorcycles. |
| 0:28.1 | And his boys were about three years apart in age, so his first son got into |
| 0:32.3 | motorcycle riding and he got into competing and he did quite |
| 0:35.9 | well, but then he had a really bad accident. |
| 0:39.5 | And the last time I saw him, he was walking with a cane, even though he was only in his 20s. So then he took his second son and got him into racing and he did again quite well but along the way he too got in an accident and the last time I saw him even though he was also in his 20s |
| 0:55.4 | He was walking like someone in his 80s |
| 0:57.8 | My dad's cousin wasn't gonna give up and his last boy actually did quite well. He got into the pros and his father |
| 1:05.0 | father was so excited. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, one day when he was practicing for an upcoming race, |
| 1:10.0 | he did a very long jump and came down, not quite right, and died. |
| 1:15.8 | Most of us probably can't relate to this because we didn't do things that put our bodies |
| 1:19.7 | in severe danger. |
| 1:21.8 | But if we've lived long enough and of course we know people who have lived |
| 1:25.2 | a long time, we also don't know that with age our bodies slow down and aren't quite as resilient |
| 1:32.1 | and as healthy as they were in our teens. |
| 1:34.0 | But again, this is no surprise. This isn't a mystery that I've discovered for everyone to learn. |
| 1:40.0 | The part that I want to share that you may not know is that as we get older |
| 1:44.7 | we do go through a lot of things psychologically, emotionally, divorce, death of a |
| 1:50.4 | loved one, loss of a job, an unsuccessful career, health issues. |
| 1:55.0 | There's a lot of Knox we get along the way that can cause us severe damage. |
| 2:00.0 | And though they may or may not wear on us physically, they will wear on who we are as a person, are psychic, our soul. |
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