#536 Am I Being Kind? The Question That Changes Everything
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Am I Being Kind? The Question That Changes Everything
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the negativity or unkindness you witness? Today, we're shifting the focus from the world 'out there' to the power within us, exploring how consciously choosing and acting with kindness can not only impact others but profoundly change our own experience, bringing back hope and genuine happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. When I was in junior high, a family with three |
| 0:14.0 | children moved in to next to our house. They were all about my age, and their middle daughter, |
| 0:19.0 | who was actually in my class, had a birth defect. |
| 0:22.3 | Her right eye was large and protruded from her face. And of course it was noticeable, but |
| 0:28.2 | they were my neighbors and they were my friends, and we spent time together over the summer |
| 0:32.4 | hanging out and getting to know each other. Well, when school started that fall, |
| 0:37.4 | sadly, though I wasn't aware of it |
| 0:39.2 | directly and didn't witness it, the other kids started teasing her, some of them at least. I did, |
| 0:45.3 | however, discover the extent of it when I went to my homeroom that morning and my homeroom teacher |
| 0:51.1 | was incredibly angry about how the kids were teasing her, and he went on |
| 0:56.1 | for about five minutes saying how people were being unkind to her, and that was incredibly wrong. |
| 1:01.5 | He was so mad. Of course, I knew people could be mean to each other, could be unkind, but this is |
| 1:08.2 | someone I knew and someone that other people that I knew were being mean to her, |
| 1:13.6 | were being unkind. |
| 1:15.6 | But thankfully, I didn't see it all the time and most of the people in my life were kind. |
| 1:21.6 | But today, our world has changed a great deal. |
| 1:25.6 | And it hasn't changed in ways that people are more unkind to each other. |
| 1:30.7 | What's changed is our ability to witness it over and over again. In the past, we all have stories |
| 1:39.2 | of people being unkind, perhaps towards others that we witness, perhaps towards us, some of us, of course, more |
| 1:47.2 | than others. But as I said, that's really changed these days. There are some really great videos on |
| 1:54.5 | YouTube, and I subscribe to some channels, so I get on YouTube periodically to find new videos |
| 2:00.5 | that I want to watch. But if you know much about YouTube, when you get on YouTube periodically to find new videos that I want to watch. But if you know |
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