#195 - Dr. Mike Rucker: The Fun Habit, Leisure Time & Productivity, How To Do A PLAY Audit, Being Intentionally Childless, The Concept Of Awe & Wonder, Time Autonomy, Cultivating A Joyful Mindset, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0	Paradoxically, the more I chased happiness, the less happy I was becoming.
0:05.0	You do have, you know, agency and autonomy over your domain, and that you can invite in joy and delight if you do it deliberately.
0:13.0	We're drawing pretty straight lines from being overly concerned about your happiness and things like clinical depression and anxiety.
0:20.0	Once we realize that we have control over how we bias our life towards fun and then
0:27.4	are grateful for that ability, it tends to be this upward spiral.
0:31.6	Welcome to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the secrets of health,
0:40.2	mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your existence and biohack
0:47.1	your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind, we're not dispensing medical advice
0:52.9	and are not responsible for any outcomes you may
0:55.7	experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. Are you ready? Let's do this.
1:04.1	Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast. Friends, today's episode is so fun. It is so fun. It was such an honor to interview Mike
1:15.8	Rucker for his book, The Fun Habit. I personally love having a thrilling experience of my life.
1:22.2	I embrace the concept of fun personally. So it was really exciting to get a psychological, scientific research approach
1:31.4	to why we should actually embrace fun in our lives. And we talked about so many cool things in this
1:36.3	episode, things you may wonder, like do people with kids actually have less fun? Should you
1:42.0	take pictures for social media? How does that affect fun?
1:45.3	What's the difference between fun and happiness? Are you addicted to work? What is the role of
1:50.0	autonomy in your life? What is the role of awe and wonder in our experience of the world?
1:55.5	Should you go on vacation? My personal thoughts on scrapbooking and so much more.
2:01.2	I cannot wait to hear what you guys think.
2:03.5	There will be a full transcript and links to everything that we talked about in these show notes.
2:07.7	That will be at Melanieavalon.com slash fun habit.
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