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Making Fun a Habit and The Pursuit of Joy | Dr. Mike Rucker

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

CHAPTER

The Most Challengesome Phase of Your Life?

In June 2016 My younger brother passed away quite suddenly from a pulmonary embolism and it just knocked me on my butt. A few months later I found out that I had advanced osteoarthritis and basically I lost the labrum in my leg. Around that same time there was a lot of research suggesting that this western pursuit of happiness Was leading not just to despair but to mental illness. And so I started going down the rabbit holes of taking a more action oriented approach to index pleasurable experiences over time.

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