266: How to Create Your Own ‘Fun Habit’ and Why It’s Important (Dr. Michael Rucker, author and positive psychologist)

So you’ve got an outdoor habit, but are you actually making time for fun? If having fun is a priority, how do you make time to actually make it happen? How can you organize your life around creating space for it?

Dr. Michael Rucker’s new book, The Fun Habit, lays out the reasons we should make fun a priority, how to make it happen and what happens when you do. And in this episode of Humans Outside he helps us mix an outdoor habit with a fun habit to get the most out of our time.

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How to Find Time to Go Outside with Laura Vanderkam

Hack to Make Life More Tranquil, More Fun and More Outdoorsy with Laura Vanderkam

How to Make Time for Joy and Heading Outside (Dr. Cassie Holmes)

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Some of the good stuff:

[2:41] Dr. Michael Rucker’s favorite outdoor space

[4:17] How Mike takes his own fun habit outside

[8:20] The difference between “happiness” and “fun”

[10:42] The role of intentionality

[20:16] What is the SAVOR model?

[25:57] Why is reminiscing important?

[27:42] A digression into fun types one, two and three

[30:37] Awe and “the mystery”