#526 The Art of Not Caring: How to Stop Giving Power to Critics
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Art of Not Caring: How to Stop Giving Power to Critics
Imagine a world where the opinions of others no longer hold you hostage. It's possible, and it starts with understanding a simple truth: their judgment is powerless unless you choose to empower it. Join me as we uncover the secrets to living a life unburdened by the need for external approval.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Words, whether in written form, said aloud, or shared with another person, can be so powerful. |
| 0:19.1 | I live in Southern California, and many years ago when social media became more |
| 0:24.5 | prominent and people started using it, people in high school started using it too. Well at the local |
| 0:30.5 | high school near my home, there were two students that were being bullied on social media. They're being called |
| 0:37.0 | names made fun of. |
| 0:38.3 | And most of us probably were exposed to this too, whether we were the victims of it, |
| 0:43.3 | or we saw it done to other people, or we did it to other people. |
| 0:47.3 | So I think often, even though social media has made it more prominent, we don't give it a lot of thought. |
| 0:52.3 | We think, well, that's what kids do to each other. |
| 0:55.3 | They make fun of each other. They tease each other. They hurt each other. Sadly, these two kids who |
| 1:01.6 | were being teased through social media ended up committing suicide. I didn't know the families, |
| 1:07.7 | and I don't know the details of it, but it was made quite prominent that they're being bullied played a part in their decision to take their own lives. |
| 1:16.6 | Now this is a very extreme case, of course. |
| 1:19.4 | But don't we all have memories of people hurting us with their words, bullying us, and |
| 1:26.4 | it affecting our lives, whether we're 16 or whether we're 60? |
| 1:31.3 | Just this past week, one of my best friends was sharing with me how she went to someone's home |
| 1:36.3 | because she's a home health nurse. |
| 1:38.3 | And a client asked her, are you pregnant? |
| 1:41.3 | She isn't pregnant, but thankfully, she's also very resilient and a very wise person, so |
| 1:47.6 | it didn't really impact her, and we just laughed about it. |
| 1:51.1 | And the good news is she doesn't look pregnant either. |
| 1:53.6 | But imagine if she had, imagine if she'd put on weight, and that client had told that to |
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