Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Success. It can seem like such a

wonderful thing that when we get it everything should be great because we finally

succeeded at something and now we get a revel in that success in our achievements.

But unfortunately the truth of the matter is when we succeed, when we get our goals, when we possess things, they can in many ways possess us so that we stop and join them and we expect or need them just to feel a sense of contentment.

Let me use food to illustrate this. I've gone through periods of my life where I did not have very much money.

As a matter of fact, I had so little money, and some of you may relate to this this that I had to live on the top

ramen noodles and pancake mix for two weeks in order to get by I just didn't

have much and as we get older, we tend to usually have a little bit more money,

and then those simple pleasures kind of go away, and we don't enjoy the simple foods anymore. Not that top ramen and eating

pancake mix with water is the best thing for us, but it can keep us alive and it can be a good form of sustenance and it can actually be a good meal sometimes.

But what we do is as we kind of go up the ladder and food and start finding better restaurants.

All of a sudden what was good for us as kids isn't good for us anymore.

We don't want to eat there anymore.

That doesn't sound as appetizing.

Here's another example to illustrate that point. I grew up in

Iowa and in Iowa where I lived there really weren't any restaurants outside of a couple

diners in the town I grew up in about 10,000 people.

And finally, I remember it was just, it was a very exciting time for the town because a pizza

hut had moved in and everyone was very excited to be able to now eat pizza on the weekends.

And it was great, it was wonderful.

But as I've moved to California, now there's a lot more variety of pizza places and the pizza is pretty good here.

So there can be a tendency to forget how good other pieces taste and only go for gourmetes. And it's more so than just going for them. It's

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