Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. One of the main questions I get from teaching

this Happiness Podcast is, yes, the concepts make sense, and they understand them, but how do you really do this on a

daily basis because it can be quite hard to live a happy life every day and regularly. How do we do it? When I was younger and studying the first

language course I ever had was French. And what I found was I was more of a math and science guy than a language guy.

So I had to put in a lot of time to learn French.

And it didn't come easily to me, and it didn't come naturally to me. And I had to put a lot of time into learning French.

I had to study the words, I had to listen to the phrases, I had to practice speaking it, and it was challenging, to say the least.

But what I learned was, though it was quite challenging, is because I put the time in and I consistently put forth effort, I slowly got better.

And with time I was actually not too bad at it.

And it really came to fruition was when one summer I had the opportunity to spend a little bit of time in front. to fluent, but I could definitely converse, and that was because I spent time every day for a few

years until I had mastered some of the skills of speaking French.

It took a lot of work, it took a lot of effort, but I was able to do it.

Now another thing I got into at a very young age was exercise.

When I was younger in high school, the two sports I did were football and track and then when I went to college I didn't

play any sports in college but I did do a lot at the gym and did intermarrow sports and I remember

always liking it even as a young adult. I just liked working out. I did have to learn skills to become good at the sports I did, particularly as I delve into new sports like yoga, but I got pretty good at it because I enjoyed it and it was easy for me.

There were things to learn, but my background and my physiology were such that I actually enjoy working out and now when I get up in the morning and go to the gym every day, I actually look forward to it and enjoy going there.

So those are the two spectrums that we're going to approach happiness with.

One is we're not going to be very good at it, and two is it's going to come pretty naturally to us.

So first, why is that? Why is it that certain things come easy to us and other things are quite hard?

Well, it really boils down to, in all things, but in this case in regards to happiness, based on two things. There are some people that are just

born more happy. Literally, they're as a child are described as being happy children and even

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