#8 Happiness - Why We Do Bad Things & How To Change It
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2011
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Changing our less desirable behaviors can be challenging. In this episode, Dr. Puff give specific technique to create lasting change. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org To explore Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I've been professionally helping people to improve their lives and help them to be happy for over 25 years now. |
| 0:29.0 | I see people in private practice, I give workshops and retreats, I work with corporations, I write books, |
| 0:36.1 | I do podcasts, I work with the media. There's many, many ways that I reach out to people. But with the thousands and thousands of people |
| 0:44.8 | that I've come in contact with over the years is a very common theme that I see in |
| 0:50.6 | people that keeps them from being happy. The main reason isn't because of lack of |
| 0:54.7 | resources or because people don't love us enough or because we didn't make it in life. The main reason |
| 1:02.1 | that I see that precludes people from being happy right now is self-judgment and judgment of others. |
| 1:11.0 | That's self-judgment and judgment of others, that self-judgment and judgment of others. In other words, we are |
| 1:17.0 | really, really hard on ourselves and to a lesser extent those around us. |
| 1:23.0 | When we mess up, we have an incredible tendency |
| 1:26.0 | just to parade ourselves, beat ourselves up, |
| 1:29.0 | talk horrible things about ourselves. |
| 1:32.0 | I mean, it can be awful. The more we hate ourselves, we often |
| 1:36.2 | don't share this with people. We keep walls up, making sure that they won't get in, because |
| 1:41.0 | we don't want other people to hurt us more than we're hurting ourselves. |
| 1:45.4 | It already hurts too much. |
| 1:47.5 | So people that have done a lot of damage have caused a lot of havoc in life, truly despise themselves. |
| 1:55.0 | Over the years I've had the opportunity of talking with people that have done what our culture would consider very heinous crimes, and often we think they just get away with it, they don't care, but the exact opposite is true. |
| 2:08.0 | They hate themselves and it's very, very sad. So on this episode I want to explore who's at fault, |
| 2:17.9 | who's the one to blame when we mess up. Mind you, ours may not be that big, but it can still matter to us and what matters |
| 2:26.5 | is how we treat ourselves and how we treat others. If we're harsh towards ourselves and |
| 2:32.2 | we're harsh towards each other, we are not going to have happy lives. |
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