#517 Happiness: Why Knowing Isn’t Enough
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Happiness: Why Knowing Isn’t Enough
We've all heard the advice, read the books, maybe even attended the seminars... but if knowing the path to happiness was enough, wouldn't we all be joyful already? On this podcast, we're diving deep into the gap between knowledge and action and exploring how to actually apply what we know to unlock a happier, more fulfilling life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:10.8 | I know we've all heard of stories where people do not practice what they preach. |
| 0:16.1 | But until we personally experience it, I think it's harder to truly understand how having knowledge |
| 0:22.1 | does not necessarily equate with wisdom. Growing up, I'd seen it before, people in the media, |
| 0:28.9 | in the news, celebrities, who were saying one thing, but later it came out they were leading |
| 0:34.3 | very different lives. But where it personally impacted my life, |
| 0:38.9 | because I knew this person, was when I was in graduate school, working on my doctorate in |
| 0:44.1 | clinical psychology. There was a professor at my school. Let's just call him the professor. |
| 0:50.5 | And at the time I was in graduate school, he wasn't teaching there anymore, but instead would |
| 0:55.2 | periodically give seminars at the school, which I attended. And I read his books because they were on |
| 1:01.1 | meditation and things like that, which I was very interested in. And he had a retreat center, |
| 1:05.6 | I believe it was in Oregon or Washington, where students or anyone could attend for two weeks, |
| 1:12.2 | and you couldn't bring any books, |
| 1:17.7 | you couldn't read, you would just be in a cabin by yourself, and once a day he would come talk with you and help you work through things that you needed to work through. It was like intensive therapy |
| 1:22.3 | by being alone in solitude. I never went, but a few of my friends had gone and said it was a great |
| 1:28.9 | experience. I had read his books and I had heard him speak and I was very impressed. He wasn't just |
| 1:35.0 | a good psychologist. He was wise. But then about halfway through my doctoral program, it came out |
| 1:40.8 | that he had been doing some very nefarious things. On these two-week retreats, it came out that he had been doing some very nefarious things. |
| 1:44.8 | On these two-week retreats, it came out that he had engaged in inappropriate sexual |
| 1:49.4 | relationships with multiple women over the course of many years. |
| 1:53.8 | At the time this came out, it was very upsetting for me. |
| 1:57.9 | I knew him. |
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