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Can You Hack Your Own Happiness? - Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

The Mindvalley Podcast

CHAPTER

Preventing Painful Experiences

Our natural desire to make people that we love happy leads us to try to prevent them from any painful experience. When my son was a little younger, i came into his room at night and he was crying. But then i said to myself, no, i'm not going to do that my child. Because what am i doing? I am trying to create an environment which is happy for him. And by that, i am depriving him of developing necessary skills to deal with adversity in the safety and comfort of me being still in his life.

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