A new book explores how to make fun and happiness a part of your daily routine—building a healthier and happier life through a science-based approach to psychological well-being.
The Problem
A lack of happiness and fun is a serious problems, and it can be challenging to build a life we can be happy in. The world is filled with pressures and challenges that make it easy for us not to have fun or joy in our daily lives, let alone when we are frustrated, depressed, anxious, or exhausted.
Health influencer and health writer Dr. Mike Rucker is a self-identified advocate of positive psychology. He explores how to make “fun” a habit in your daily life in his new book The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit Of Joy And Wonder Can Change Your Life.
“Grounded in current research, accessible science, and practical recommendations, The Fun Habit explains how you can build having fun into an actionable and effortless habit and why doing so will help you become a healthier, more joyful, more productive person,” says the publisher.
Possible Solutions
The Fun Habit draws on Dr. Rucker’s experience with life’s challenges and shows how a high-achiever can build a more robust work-life balance and “reap the serious benefits fun offers.”
“The story about myself that I tell in my book The Fun Habit starts in 2016, when the tools that I had built as a student of positive psychology suddenly failed me during one of my life’s most difficult stretches. Finding myself unhappy, a bit lonely, and burnt out, I began to critically evaluate modern approaches to happiness. I quickly realized how much misinformation is out there. Years of research coalesced as The Fun Habit. The Fun Habit is an action-based approach that helps you critically examine your pursuit of happiness and make adjustments using evidence-based practices to invite more fun and joy in your life,” says Rucker.
“In the vein of Year of Yes, 10% Happier, and Atomic Habits, The Fun Habit is an inspiring and motivational guidebook that you will want to share with everyone in your life,” says the publisher.
The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life will be published on January 3, 2023, by Atria Books.
