1KHO 109: We are Critically Fun Starved | Michael Rucker, Ph.D. - The Fun Habit

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Heading into a new year, behavioral scientist, organizational psychologist, and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association Dr. Mike Rucker joins us to talk about his brand new book, The Fun Habit. Fun is essential to the development of the human brain so Mike helps us figure out how we can intentionally insert more fun into our lives. We talk about creating the space for spontaneity, about how rote memories encode in our brain as one singular memory, about why living a tapestry of different experiences leads to a happier life, about why we're meant to get bored, about the benefits of having a memento mori and more! This episode will help you live a better life this coming year! Learn more about Mike Rucker here >> https://michaelrucker.com/ Order your copy of The Fun Habit here >> https://amzn.to/3i935zT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right here we go.
0:02.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast.
0:04.8	Happy New Year.
0:06.2	This is coming out right at the start of the new year
0:08.1	and right when a fantastic book is launching
0:12.0	and the author Mike Rucker is here today. Welcome. Thank you so
0:16.4	much for having me back. I was really looking forward to this. We had so much
0:19.8	fun the first time so. Yeah time number two was always extra fun because you kind of know each
0:24.4	other and you have this history a little bit of history Mike your book came out it came out
0:30.4	yeah yeah yeah. Congratulations!
0:33.6	The fun habit!
0:35.0	How the pursuit of joy and wonder can change your life.
0:38.5	The fun habit.
0:39.5	Find delight, fix unhappy.
0:41.6	Mike, this was a long time coming wasn't it?
0:44.0	It was yeah.
0:45.0	Tell us what happened.
0:46.0	Well I think I mentioned on the first episode I lost my younger brother and was kind of lost and
0:51.7	had always valued happiness but at that time when it was
0:55.2	sort of elusive I became overly concerned with trying to be happy when it wasn't really
1:00.3	an appropriate emotional response.
1:02.8	And that kind of failure led to a lot of self-exploration.
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