What Gretchen Rubin thinks about health and fitness

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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1. 30 Jun 2026

   Our readingAdults, like children, focus and learn better when they get regular breaks for exercise, sunlight, and unstructured play.

   Their wordsResearch shows that children are far better able to sit still, focus, and learn when they've had the exercise, sunlight, freedom, and fun of recess. The same is true for adults.

   ↗This Summer, Design a Daily Recess: 7 Ways to Have More Fungretchenrubin.com 1st of 2 in this piece