#499 Living in a Material World: The Joy of Less
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Living in a Material World: The Joy of Less
In a world obsessed with accumulating more, 'The Joy of Less' explores the counterintuitive path to happiness through minimalism and mindful living. Join us as we uncover the secrets to finding true contentment and fulfillment, even while navigating the challenges of a material world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I want us to look at two very important questions today. I think that really shape our lives. |
| 0:17.0 | The first one is, there's usually something we really want in life, some material possession that we think if we get it, we'll be really |
| 0:26.8 | happy. And if we don't get it, there's something wrong. It's like our lives just isn't complete. |
| 0:33.0 | Not having that thing creates an us both suffering and craving, |
| 0:37.0 | and we just can't wait and hope that someday we'll get that thing. |
| 0:43.0 | And then here's the second question. |
| 0:45.0 | Why is it when we finally do get something that we really want? |
| 0:49.0 | It doesn't keep us happy. |
| 0:51.0 | Very quickly, sometimes almost immediately, we have a new desire that we just can't |
| 0:56.7 | wait to be fulfilled and then when we get that we'll be okay. And it's like this vicious cycle. We wish for something, sometimes we get it, we feel |
| 1:06.0 | better briefly, and then we wish for something else. Sometimes we get it, then once we get |
| 1:11.0 | it, we want something else almost immediately. |
| 1:14.1 | It's a vicious cycle that we experience often throughout our lives. |
| 1:18.4 | But what's going on here? Why is this happening? |
| 1:21.5 | So what creates desires? Where do our desires come from? |
| 1:25.2 | We're actually conditioned. You could perhaps use a word brainwashed into thinking |
| 1:30.7 | that certain things if we had them would just make our lives wonderful. |
| 1:34.8 | Sometimes this brainwashing comes from people or around, they have something, |
| 1:39.2 | they say is wonderful and we want that. |
| 1:41.2 | And often it comes from the media. The media is telling us if you have this item |
| 1:46.1 | your life's going to be wonderful. I'm going to use an example to illustrate this point. |
| 1:52.1 | Imagine that you and I got together and we decided to |
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