#535 The Habit Reset: Finding Happiness in Forgoing
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Habit Reset: Finding Happiness in Forgoing
Imagine a clarity within, a mental space reclaimed not by constant negotiation with the endless scroll or the siren call of distraction, but by the simple, profound act of letting go. This talk ventures into the heart of that focused presence, examining how the choice to forgo the fleeting allure of 'just one more click' or 'just a little longer' can become a powerful catalyst for inner transformation, leading to a life imbued with genuine and lasting well-being.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Have you noticed something lately? |
| 0:13.5 | Media and social media platforms have gotten really good at pulling us in and keeping us there for a long time. It's like they're watching |
| 0:23.7 | us really carefully, paying especially attention to anything that peaks our interests. And if it does, |
| 0:30.7 | they're going to feed it to us in droves. I want you to imagine something that if this happened, |
| 0:37.2 | how many people would be affected? |
| 0:39.6 | Imagine that throughout history, any time you're going through a rough time, or just struggling, |
| 0:46.8 | and wanted to perhaps have a drink, just to relax and get your mind off all your troubles, |
| 0:52.8 | that right behind you was a person waiting with your |
| 0:57.4 | favorite bourbon or bottle of beer that you just love cool ready and at your disposal and as soon as |
| 1:06.0 | you had one it had another one just waiting for you and And it just kept feeding you anything you wanted, |
| 1:13.0 | the best of the best, your favorite glass of wine. And it had an endless dream of your favorite |
| 1:19.8 | alcohol waiting for you. Could you imagine how many people would struggle with alcoholism? |
| 1:26.2 | Or let's imagine that we decided we need to go on a diet |
| 1:29.4 | and lose some weight and that we really like sweets. They're wonderful. So we're especially going to |
| 1:36.0 | stay away from them. But everywhere we go, whenever we're slightly hungry, right behind us, |
| 1:42.4 | is the most magnificent dessert chef waiting to present us |
| 1:47.6 | the most delicious, scrumptious desserts that we just love. And this chef could make us anything |
| 1:55.8 | and it paid especially attention to what we liked and it would feed us exactly what we wanted, even though |
| 2:03.2 | we're trying to lose weight. Now, these two examples, of course, are a bit extreme and unrealistic, |
| 2:09.6 | because we don't have someone waiting behind us, ready to provide us whatever we wanted, whenever we |
| 2:15.6 | wanted it. But the truth is, our world has changed. And now we do |
| 2:21.6 | have, at our disposal, at any time, 3 o'clock in the morning, driving in our car, sitting in line |
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