The Fun Habit

Mike Rucker is a behavior scientist who was one of the charter members of the International Positive Psychology Association.

Rucker suggests that we classify all of our daily activities into the Play Model.



Then he encourages us to log all our activities and evaluate where they fall in this model. Our goal is to increase Pleasing and Living and decrease Yielding and Agonizing.

Rucker explores the key parts of human life—work, parenting, friendship, free time—and offers ideas for ways to include play.