I will come back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joe Mark Witt and I'm

Antonio Dutch I've been thinking a lot about joyfulness recently.

And I was imagining myself as a young child

and remembering how I thought about joyfulness and happiness

and how I used to think, as a kid,

you know, like most kids do, joyfulness happens to me from the external world.

My situation somehow creates this idea that I'm going to be joyful and happy by my circumstances, set up right or by happenstance quite frankly and I

think most of us have this viewpoint as children that happiness and joyfulness is

something out there that happens to us. And then we mature and we become adults or on our way to becoming adults and we have this transition where we go, wow, I really can't control the outer world. I can't control the environment. I can't control what happens out here.

And if I have to wait for circumstances outside of myself to create joyfulness in my life,

I'm going to be waiting a long time and in fact I might be very

disappointed when it never comes and so we change and we come inward and say this has to

come from within this is something that's an inner game situation. I create joyfulness for myself. I respond to things that happen in my external world.

I set up the circumstances for myself to be joyful no matter what happens out there.

And I think this is where a lot of people stop and plateau.

They realize it's an inner game.

They realize it's something that has to come from within.

And it's kind of like still a little bit of magic thinking around it though

it's still a little bit of like well maybe this will happen or hopefully this will

happen or if I set up things just maybe this way it'll happen and not real clear on how that works.

And I think I'm shifting my viewpoint now into seeing joyfulness and happiness and

the good things that happen as actually a skill that I build, something that I

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