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Mike Rucker
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The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life
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| This book is the kind of novel that pulls you in not because its main character is easy to admire, but because he feels painfully human. Tim Grahl does a strong job of writing the protagonist with enough honesty and complexity that even when his flaw ...more | |
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| I write and think about behavior change for a living, so I have read my way through a LOT of books about habits. Most of them are useful, but many quietly assume a version of life that does not really exist. You wake up, you execute your routines lik ...more | |
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| Today Was Fun is the rare business book that accepts the challenge of examining the entire 50,000-foot view of how we approach work. Bree beautifully takes on the normalized pain of the modern worker and shows us how much of what we label professiona ...more | |
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| Today Was Fun is the rare business book that accepts the challenge of examining the entire 50,000-foot view of how we approach work. Bree beautifully takes on the normalized pain of the modern worker and shows us how much of what we label professiona ...more | |
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| Goetz's message will hit for anyone who's swallowed the hustle‑culture mantra whole (guilty 🙋♂️). She offers, as an alternative, a sustainable, authentic path forward by pairing story‑rich narratives with frameworks that invite you to challenge stan ...more | |
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| Interesting read. It's philosophical and not really tactical (i.e., there aren't really "how-to" steps to be found). If you're open-minded to old-school mindset work and want something that nudges your consciousness, you might enjoy it. I did. If you ...more | |
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| Interesting read. It's philosophical and not really tactical (i.e., there aren't really "how-to" steps to be found). If you're open-minded to old-school mindset work and want something that nudges your consciousness, you might enjoy it. I did. If you ...more | |
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“Children are the best thing in a parent’s life, Gilbert told one audience at a gathering of the Association for Psychological Science in 2007, “but only because they tend to get rid of every source of joy we had before they came along.”
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“There’s more to many parents’ resistance to play than the weight of obligation. Otherwise, hearing the words “Will you play with me?” wouldn’t be right up there with “I think I accidentally wet the bed,” at times.”
― The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life
― The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life
