The Power of a Fun Habit

Invite Your Audience To Start Experiencing More Joy

Nowadays, we’re all facing some level of burnout, loneliness, or at least an aching feeling that we should be enjoying life a bit more than we are. The great news is there is an easy solution, hiding in plain sight—you just need someone to point out the way. Fun is an action orientation anyone can take here and now, practically anywhere, anytime. Through research and science, we all know fun is enormously beneficial to our physical and psychological well-being, yet fun’s absence from our modern lives is striking. One session with Dr. Rucker and your audience walks away with useful tools to immediately invite more delight and joy into their life. They will thank you for having better resilience, richer relationships, higher productivity, and new strategies to enjoy their life to the fullest.

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About Dr. Mike Rucker

Dr. Mike Rucker is an organizational psychologist and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association whose work has been published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management and Nutrition Research. His ideas about fun and health have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Vox, Thrive Global, mindbodygreen, and more. To learn more, click here.

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KEYNOTE
Why a Fun Habit?

Fun is a direct neurological route to improving our well-being—yet, for adults, it is a skill that requires a bit of retraining. Mike engages the audience to start their journey towards having more fun in life without sacrificing other priorities.

Takeaways:

How to increase productivity by deliberately making things more fun
How to strengthen ties with colleagues, friends, and family
How to use fun for good to make a positive impact and create a better world

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WORKSHOP
How to Build a Fun Habit

By the end of this workshop (complete with workbooks), the audience will know how to turn fun into an actionable and effortless habit, with a rich understanding of how doing so will help them become a healthier, more joyful, more productive person.

Learning objectives:

Learn the PLAY Model and use it to maximize the fun in any given week
Walk through several exercises to start having more fun immediately
Discover ways to amplify fun’s power long after the moment

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Early Praise for The Fun Habit

A masterful distillation of science and personal experience, The Fun Habit provides a roadmap for bringing more fun into your life every day. Mike Rucker uncovers the amazing power we have to improve our present state and how fun is the key to a more enjoyable and fulfilling life. Readers looking for actionable science-based strategies, rather than pie in the sky promises, will love this book.

Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable

This book is a breath of fresh air for those who want more joy and wonder in their lives. Michael artfully bridges science and storytelling to bring to life a compelling manual revealing best practices to enhance reader’s quality of life. He has metabolized decades of empirical research to create The Fun Habit. This book is foundational for anyone who wants to improve performance, enhance relationships, and have greater social impact.

Dr. Michael Gervais, High Performance Psychologist; Founder: Finding Mastery, Inc

The Fun Habit sounds like an oxymoron. Isn’t fun spontaneous? Often. But people can also put themselves in places and positions that are conducive to having fun. Both intensely personnel and extensively researched, Michael Rucker distills decades of life experience and academic research into a practical set of tips, tools, and tactics for bringing more fun into your life.

Dr. Olav Sorenson, Joseph Jacobs Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies; Professor of Strategy; Faculty Research Director, Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

A unique and engaging read, The Fun Habit is filled with practical advice on how to inject more fun into your everyday life — without ditching your job or draining your bank account. Dr. Michael Rucker has pulled together compelling research, gathering wisdom from wide-ranging sources that include a slew of behavioral scientists, a video game designer and an astronaut. Rucker’s not afraid to share his own forays into injecting fun in his life, positioning himself not just as a researcher but as a partner in the journey. Rucker doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach, instead allowing readers to fine-tune their sense of what brings them joy as they learn to approach life with a bias toward fun.

Hayley Riggs, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department

The author provides strategies for “adding novel, pleasurable activities into your daily life” and equips readers with “scientific evidence for the life-sustaining value and importance of fun.” … The scientific grounding behind the suggestions impresses, and Rucker’s stance that negative emotions are unavoidable and necessary adds nuance and guards against what he calls “toxic positivity.” This is a fittingly entertaining guide.