Brat McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Do you feel stuck in life?

Inwardly you keep repeating the same thoughts, outwardly you keep repeating the same routine,

and on and on a cycle of unhappy disappointment goes.

To break the cycle, maybe what you need to do is watch a film that has become synonymous with this kind of stuckness,

Groundhog Day, which my guest says contains the roadmap to escaping a life lived on autopilot.

His name is Paul Hannum, he's the author of the Wisdom of Groundhog Day,

How to Improve Your Life One Day at a Time.

And today on the show, Paul impacts the deeper philosophical layers of what's considered one of the best movies of all time.

Paul explains how the film teaches us that to escape the roots of what he calls the Groundhog Day condition,

we must first make an interchange where we learn to approach life in a more grateful, present-focused, engaged way.

From there, we can embrace the film's unique strategy for change, which is to experiment with doing something new every day,

thereby refining and improving our lives through the process of trial, error, and progressive improvement.

After the show is over, check out our show notes at a-m.is slash Groundhog.

Alright, Paul Hannum, welcome to the show.

Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here, Brad.

So you are a speaker, you're an entrepreneur, you're an academic who taught about organizational behavior, an entrepreneurship at Oxford University.

You've also written a book about the surprising Wisdom that can be found in the book,

called, Cult-Clastic, Bill Murray Film, Groundhog Day. I'm curious, when did you start thinking about the life-changing insights contained in Groundhog Day?

I mean, always going on in your life when you thought this movie resonates.

Well, you know, I first watched this film in 1993, the year it came out, and I thought, wow, what a brilliant comedy, it was hilarious, some magical.

But it also had a profound effect on me, unlike any other movie. And, you know, when I talk about this, half the people I talk to think I'm mad, and half the people I talk to get it straight away.

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