Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Over the years I've had the

privilege of meeting some very successful people in a variety of fields and occupations.

I remember when I was applying to graduate schools and was going for interviews.

I had the privilege of staying at a brain surgeon's home, which was gorgeous.

But when I talked to his wife in him, I discovered that, though he had been very successful in his career,

his investments hadn't gone as well, and he had squandered a great deal of his money through his investments.

Though he was an excellent surgeon, he wasn't good at investing his money that he made from

his surgeries.

I remember when I was at Princeton hearing about how Albert Einstein when he was there one

time called up to the main office and he said, could you tell me where Dr. Einstein lives?

And they said, I'm sorry'm sorry sir we don't give that

information out and he said well I'm Dr. Einstein and I can't remember my way

home. I don't personally know Larry King but he's clearly a brilliant interview person and a media expert, but he is

on his eighth marriage. He clearly is one of the top media people in the world, but marriages

haven't gone as well for him.

So I'm using these examples for a purpose.

What I've learned is that in life we can get good at things, we can get really good at things. I work in my practice with

exceptionally creative and intelligent people that get excellent in their field. But when

they're good at something, what happens is when we take our energy to get good at something,

there's only so much energy we have.

So often it's at the expense of something else, and that expense can be quite high. So in this podcast, what I'm going to suggest

is why not instead of getting good at becoming wealthy, intelligent, successful, whatever it may be that we think will make us happy, why not

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