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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 58: We Only Need Five Good Friends - The Science of Fun and Relationships | Dr. Michael Rucker, The Fun Habit | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, S3 E31

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We all want to have a little bit more fun!! How much fun do we need? What consistutes as fun? What are some fun ideas? Dr. Michael Rucker, authoer of the upcoming book The Fun Habit is on a mission to help the world have more fun. In this episode we explore a lot of the science behind having fun as we touch on autonomy, situational intimacy, exploring uncertainty, friendship, personality traits surrounding what's considered fun, and much more! You can find out more about Mike, about his upcoming book, and about the science behind fun on his website: https://michaelrucker.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Fun is a really wide tent, right?

0:05.0

Like I'm sure, you know, in a few weeks,

0:10.0

you know, someone could be advocating

0:12.0

for a different type of activity, know than outdoor play and so I think it will be neat to sort of

0:18.6

Understand the research that you've done you know and have the dialogue about that and then I can share everything that I've learned just about leisure in general right because I think so much of a worse start I think that's where our message certainly there is a high resonance right is that we're just mortgaging so much of what life has to offer because

0:39.7

You know in the pandemic especially right? Yeah because you know and in the pandemic especially right yeah because you know I listened to Priscilla's

0:49.3

your recent podcast with Priscilla and like you you know, it was interesting I think of her personal choice but then also in a macro context of how many parents had to make some, you know, interesting decisions.

1:01.6

My wife and I specifically, and if we get into it or not doesn't matter but you know we went the other way unfortunately we were in survival mode of my day job is in

1:10.7

we put health clubs and corporate installations and hospitals and all those were shut down, right?

1:17.2

So we're, you know, I was trying to help us think and ship.

1:20.6

And we really had to, know rely on things that didn't necessarily feel good

1:28.2

so that everyone had the psychological space you know space to survive.

1:33.0

And then how do you unengineer that?

1:35.7

Because what we do know from psychology is

1:38.2

habitual behavior is hard to change, right?

1:40.1

Unless you're being, you know, I know you have a very pragmatic way to do that but a lot of folks don't have those

1:45.8

tools even though it seems so pedestrian right? Sometimes it just takes that nudge and I can tell your

1:51.9

audience you know loves it and I get a similar vibe from my tribe is like this is so easy like I'm frustrated I didn't even you know like it like it just took you, you know, it's kind of like sometimes I like, you know, a fire to a caveman, right? Like that's, fire is not really that, you know, it's an elemental thing, but until you can see you know then and then all of a

2:15.2

sudden you're like where it was there right there in front of my face the whole time.

2:18.6

Yeah, yeah.

2:20.6

Well listen Mike we're in it so let's just keep going.

2:23.0

We're in it, I'm going to leave all that in.

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