#516 The Uncommon Life: Breaking Free from the Herd
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The Uncommon Life: Breaking Free from the Herd
Are you tired of feeling like just another face in the crowd? Do you ever sense there's more to life than following the well-worn path? Welcome to "The Uncommon Life: Breaking Free from the Herd," where we explore the choices we make between conforming to societal expectations and forging our own unique path to self-actualization.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I want to share a story with you. There once was a chicken farmer who was out for a walk and he came upon eagle's nest. He noticed that the eagles were both dead and their eggs were spruing all about because they had |
| 0:22.3 | been attacked by wolves and killed. But he also noticed that one of the eggs hadn't been destroyed, |
| 0:27.7 | so he decided to take it home and put the egg in the nest of one of his chickens. He wanted to see |
| 0:33.5 | what would happen. Well, after a little while, the eagle it was born and it was raised by the |
| 0:39.5 | mother chicken. And it grew up thinking it was a chicken. Well, as it grew older, it went outside |
| 0:44.8 | one day to play with the other chickens. And it looked up in the sky and saw an eagle flying way up |
| 0:50.8 | in the sky. And then he talked to the other chickens and said, wouldn't it be wonderful to be |
| 0:55.9 | able to fly like that? And the other chickens looked at him and said, we'll never fly like that. |
| 1:00.7 | We're chickens. We stay here and the farmer takes good care of us. Sometimes the eagles would see him |
| 1:06.4 | because they had very good eyes and they would fly down to the chicken pen and asked the eagle to come fly with |
| 1:12.0 | them. And he said, I can't fly with you. I'm a chicken. Go away. They laughed and flew away. But as he |
| 1:19.3 | grew older, though he longed to soar high up in the sky with the other eagles, he knew his place |
| 1:25.4 | with with the chickens, and he didn't leave, and he grew old, longing for |
| 1:30.1 | a better life, but dying in the farmer's chicken coop. You may have heard this story before, |
| 1:37.1 | but I want to change it in one way, in the way that all the chickens in the chicken coop were |
| 1:43.3 | actually eagles, and they all had forgotten their |
| 1:46.7 | true nature and they were living like chickens. I would change it in this way because ultimately, |
| 1:52.5 | I do believe we're all eagles and have the potential to soar through life, but we are very |
| 1:59.3 | much affected by and influenced by those who we hang out with |
| 2:03.3 | and spend our time with. The culture we live in, the history we're part of, the country that we |
| 2:09.8 | support or detest, but we're all part of a culture, we're all part of a community that is shaping |
| 2:16.7 | us. And today, I wanted to look at the possibility |
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