The Science of Fun with Michael Rucker
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Michael Rucker is the Chief Digital Officer of Active Wellness, and the creator and author of "The Fun Habit", an action-based approach that helps critically examine one's pursuit of happiness and make adjustments using evidence-based practices to invite more fun and joy in life. Today, he joined Larry and shares about how the pursuit of joy and wonder can change your life.
Mike Rucker believes that joy and wonder can be found in the simple things in life, like spending time with family and friends, playing with children, and taking time to appreciate the beauty of nature. Joy and wonder can also be found in larger, more meaningful moments, like celebrating a milestone, or mourning the loss of a loved one.
Mike adds that the pursuit of joy and wonder is a powerful force that can change our lives for the better. It can be found in the little moments of everyday life and in the bigger, more meaningful moments. Joy and wonder bring us closer to our true selves, and can bring us closer to those we love.
It is important to remember that life is too short not to have fun. When we are present for our families, we are showing them that we care and that we value our relationships. So, take the time to be present and enjoy the moments that we have with our loved ones.
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| 0:00.0 | Do anything, but let it produce joy. That's a quote from Walt Whitman and perfectly appropriate for today's podcast today |
| 0:07.6 | My guest shares some amazing knowledge on |
| 0:11.5 | Why people today are more burnt out than generations passed and when we lead lives devoid of leisure |
| 0:18.1 | We have higher levels of depression anxiety and even cardiac events and why we should never measure |
| 0:25.4 | necessarily our self-worth solely on our productivity |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the dad edge podcast the dad edge movement creates leaders of men leaders of families and leaders of communities |
| 0:40.0 | We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the next generation as well |
| 0:45.0 | The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them |
| 0:53.4 | We are here to change the world |
| 0:55.6 | We are here to change relationships |
| 0:57.9 | We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets |
| 1:04.6 | We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion, purpose and direction |
| 1:12.8 | We are the dad edge and we're here to change the game |
| 1:26.4 | What's up gentlemen? Welcome to the dad edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagnar your host and founder of this podcast show and movement |
| 1:38.8 | Hope you're having an amazing march |
| 1:41.5 | Today is about the science of fun and to quote my oldest son science |
| 1:47.2 | Fun do those two words even belong in the same sentence? Well |
| 1:52.7 | Today they do because my guest today wrote the book on it, which has been pretty darn cool |
| 1:59.1 | So today my amazing guest is Michael Rucker |
| 2:04.0 | He's an author, father, husband, organizational psychologist, behavioral scientist, recovering entrepreneur, fitness enthusiast, |
| 2:13.5 | VW bus, aficiado, seeker, traveler and future astronaut. That's a that's a mouthful. I don't even think I said a |
| 2:21.4 | ficiado right, but that's okay. You guys got it |
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