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The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

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Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obsess over intangible concepts such as happiness while obscuring the fact that real happiness lies in the everyday experience of fun. We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a day for what Price calls "Fake Fun"--bingeing on television, doom-scrolling the news, or posting photos to social media, all in hopes of filling some of the emptiness we feel inside..

In this follow-up to her hit book, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Price makes the case that True Fun--which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow--will give us the fulfillment we so desperately seek. If you use True Fun as your compass, you will be happier and healthier. You will be more productive, less resentful, and less stressed. You will have more energy. You will find community and a sense of purpose. You will stop languishing and start flourishing. And best of all? You'll enjoy the process.

Weaving together scientific research with personal experience, Price reveals the surprising mental, physical, and cognitive benefits of fun, and offers a practical, personalized plan for how we can achieve better screen/life balance and attract more True Fun into our daily lives--without feeling overwhelmed.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 2021

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Catherine Price

23 books284 followers
Catherine Price is passionate about learning and experiencing new things, understanding first principles, and using her background as a science journalist to help people question their assumptions and make positive changes in their lives.

Her journalistic work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Parade, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Self, Mother Jones, Health Magazine, and Outside, among others.

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Profile Image for Amy  Ellis.
870 reviews31 followers
January 12, 2022
Reading the Power of Fun was boring, honestly. I felt like I could have just watched a TED talk on the topic and then used the rest of the time to go do something fun. The author missed an opportunity to make reading this book a practice in fun. Instead, it was long chapters quoting books and articles about how to make time for and recognize fun in your life. To sum it up? True fun includes playfulness, connection, and flow. That sentence was repeated dozens of times throughout the book.
I did like the reminder to find delight in every day and to break up routines with new experiences. I also liked her thoughts on “fake fun” and getting away from screens. Still, this book should have been full of tons of ideas to have fun in daily life, rather than wax lengthy on the definition of hobbies, interests, and flow.
Profile Image for Todd Kashdan.
Author 9 books147 followers
November 2, 2021
Of all the documentaries, podcasts, and books I've digested over the years none have been as persuasive as The Power of Fun to wean me from my smartphone screen (and convince others to do the same). But don't be mislead. This is not an authoritarian creed on the evils of smartphones. What this book addresses is the next seemingly obvious question - if you detox from screens, what's the plan for entertaining yourself? You probably don't have a great answer and neither did I. This is one reason kids refuse to leave their screens. This is at the core of why adults are often worse than kids with their screen addictions. People just don't know what to do with their free time.

Consider this quote from the late Dr. Mihalyi Csiksentmihalyi, author of Flow: In their free time people feel that there is generally not much to do and their skills are not being used, and therefore they tend to feel more sad, weak, dull, and dissatisfied.

In general, adults have a hard time having fun. Being silly. Being rebellious. Laughing uproariously without a hint of self-consciousness. Entering into a playful mindset and diving headfirst into activities.

This book is going to change people's lives. It is a manifesto on how to live with more playfulness and exuberance. I really hope this gets into the hands of people I bump into at future bars and parties. I don't just want to inject more fun into my life, I want to be surrounded and infected by other people enjoying themselves.

I do want to add a bonus reason to read this book - you will adore the author. She is $#@! hilarious. The way she experiments on herself. The way she details the intimate connections and arguments with her partner. She is witty. She is intelligent. And she has a masterful way of relying on research but keeping it in the background. Her playful writing style makes this book infinitely readable and relatable. You are going to want to contact her with hopes of being her friend. I have read hundreds of books. The only other author who I wanted to befriend as quickly as Catherine Price is Mary Roach. Kind, hilarious, witty, intellectuals with a desire to improve other people's lives.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite reads and will certainly be on my end of year recommendation list.
Profile Image for Lucy.
510 reviews122 followers
April 9, 2022
This is my first book by this author, and had never heard of her previous book How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. The majority of this book is basically about why you should break up with your phone, so I imagine it repeats a lot from the previous one. I found this book interesting enough and enjoyed the author's anecdotes about her own experiences. I didn't enjoy all the how/why of keeping a "fun" journal. To me, that was just filler for the book. Some, though, might find it helpful and practical.
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32 reviews
December 24, 2021
I hate to leave a less than great review. This is totally subjective and isn’t meant to take away from the work the author put into this book.

I really enjoyed a lot of the discussion about attention, phone use, and what true fun is and is not. Where things went south for me personally, was with the personal stories that, at times, seemed just about bragging and barely connected to the point of the chapter. (Looking at you, lingerie for lawyers anecdote.)

I also didn’t care for the discussion comparing everything to the evils of “the obesity epidemic” when there is so much recent research and evidence that the whole premise behind that “epidemic” was flawed from the beginning. When people on the upper end actually live longer than people in the lower end of the bmi scale, I just couldn’t connect with that entire section and kept thinking it came across as very fatphobic.

As a mom of four little ones, I just don’t see myself being able to keep journals analyzing the fun in my day… not because I scroll social media or spend pointless hours on my phone either, but because I’m truly that busy with all of my responsibilities. I genuinely think the author does not realize the difference in peoples lives because I’m very privileged and still do not have time for this. I think the target audience is not parents with four young kids, homeschooling, trying to survive a pandemic, and with a ton of responsibilities every day. Maybe this wasn’t the right book at the right time for me.
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1,055 reviews2 followers
December 27, 2021
I loved Catherine Price's book How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, but this The Power of Fun just bummed me out. How to Break Up with Your Phone is a plan to improve your life, and it feels prescriptive in an encouraging way. The Power of Fun is strident, dour, and generally unfun. I think it will probably be useful to some people but I found it too depressing to finish reading. I generally want this type of self-help book to feel uplifting and inspiring, and this missed the mark.

If you're looking for a self-help guide to inspire you to find joy in your creative life or hobbies, I suggest Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, possibly in combination with How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life.

My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy of the ebook.
Profile Image for Adam Benforado.
Author 3 books94 followers
December 20, 2021
As the pandemic shroud descended, I gave up on fun. With two working parents, two little kids, and no childcare, I decided that fun no longer fit my lifestyle. It was one of the personal “luxuries” that I had to do without for a while. As I always had, I continued to pursue fun for my children—but I told myself that a prudent, disciplined adult in my position would focus on other things until the landscape changed to something less foreboding.

Catherine Price’s excellent, eye-opening new book has made me realize my mistake. Fun is not “just for kids.” Fun is not optional. Fun is not something that detracts from more serious pursuits.

Fun is essential and when you turn your back on it, you imperil all of the oh-so-serious facets of your life: your health, your work productivity, and your relationships.

Marshaling the latest social science evidence, Catherine makes a powerful case for the incredible benefits that arise in moments of fun. Devouring an advance copy of the manuscript in a single reading, I found myself nodding along as she explained the nuances of playfulness, connection, and flow. It all made sense, but I hadn’t had the sense to see it.

Catherine is a keen observer, but she’s also a funny writer and I wonder if it was the laughing out loud that produced the lasting impact. Whatever the cause, when I finished, I felt refreshed: I’d made a mistake, but I now knew what I needed to do.

With the new year, I’m committing to finding True Fun.

If you’ve been gritting your teeth, buckling down the hatches, keeping calm and carrying on, through the last two years, I encourage you—indeed, I implore you—to pick up this book.

2022 can be a different year!
Profile Image for Erin Goettsch.
1,445 reviews
January 23, 2022
I started this, returned it to the library, then heard a lot of great things about this and re-requested it. I… was right the first time, at least for my own reading tastes.

There are a few great takeaways here (playfulness + connection + flow will stick with me, and I liked the fun magnet and fun audit lists) but you have to REALLY want to find the meat of what the book is about, because it’s buried — after a solid third of the book, I think — under a mountain of all the reasons this writer truly hates smartphones. And even though she already wrote a whole book about that, she doesn’t seem able to see anything in this ostensibly-different book, NOT through that same filter.

It’s good to know/remember how are devices are designed to draw us in and make us addicts, and distract us from the things we’d rather *intentionally* be doing. But she is SO hung up on it — the details, the mechanics, so many books and articles and statistics — that the book feels more about THAT than actual fun. It made me mostly tired.

But plenty of people love it! So it must be helpful and useful and great for plenty of others.
Profile Image for Peter Derk.
Author 32 books392 followers
June 14, 2022
Alright, I just complained about How to Be An Antiracist for these same things:

I just picked out a book called The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.

This is indication that

A) I would like to hear about how to have fun
B) I'm dead inside

So, what I don't really need is a long text that defines fun, explains fun is important, and 40% in, hasn't really gotten to the part of reviving my cold, dead heart.

Also, irony, it wasn't fun to read the book. It was homework.

I buy the premise and key idea of this book from the cover page. I don't know why there was so much extra stuff, I guess some people just like reading extra?
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474 reviews91 followers
December 19, 2021
I wish I would have read this book earlier in my life as I am 64 years old now. After reading this book I felt so uplifted and realized it is never to late to enjoy life and have fun. I wake up each morning now feeling happier and looking for something fun to do each day. It might be something small or large but it brings me joy. Thanks Catherine Price. Highly recommend.
170 reviews
November 27, 2021
I was really looking forward to "The Power of Fun". Who doesn't need more fun in their life?
I only got about halfway through the book.
She had me at the beginning. All the personal anecdotes helped make her points very clear.
The only problem was that she made it into a science (which I don't agree that fun is).
It seems to me that this subject would make a great essay (for the New York Times?)
The bottom line is: she defines fun as playfulness, connection and flow. When you have one of these, you are heading in the right direction. When you have all three, you are having Real Fun (as opposed to Fake Fun, which she also defines).
So, you need to think about situations where you had one or two or all three of the components of Real Fun. And repeat.
I think I've summed the book up nicely.
Profile Image for Brian Griffith.
Author 7 books315 followers
December 1, 2024
Price does a quite heavily researched investigation of fun, what it is, why it’s important, how it happens, and how we can make it happen more. It becomes a workbook on how to find your true fun, and some of this is itself fun to read. However, concerning the intentionality it takes, let me just quote her quote of Mihaly Csikszentimihalyi:

The popular assumption is that no skills are involved in enjoying free time, and that anybody can do it. Yet the evidence suggests the opposite: free time is more difficult to enjoy than work. Having leisure at one’d disposal does not improve the quality of life unless one knows how to use it effectively, and it is by no means something one learns automatically.

One big thing she focuses on is focus, because no real fun can happen with distraction. She considers a research paper called “A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind,” and then remarks, “Considering how often we seek distractions specifically because we’re feeling down and want to boost our mood, this is a very big deal.”

Furthermore, constant critical judgement is a killer: “Perfectionism doesn’t leave space for playfulness ….” And then there's “buying into the idea that the best way to achieve health, success, and happiness is to maximize every single thing we do.”

Basically, Price feels like fun is the greatest joy in life, which should be very close to top priority. And she does urge dumping things that just don’t deliver on that. It can sound like a drive to maximize fun, as if life was more about finding your bliss than finding your purpose. But actually, she’s more into putting enjoyment into whatever we do, however important it is.
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137 reviews
November 14, 2021
I felt like this book didn't need to be nearly as long as it was. There wasn't a ton new in the messaging and I didn't learn much, but it's certainly an important message and had a lot of good reminders in it.
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232 reviews7 followers
January 26, 2022
This book had so much potential, and, to be fair, it gave me some good things to think about. However, a book about fun should be FUN! This book constantly felt so depressingly negative and really felt too much like a sequel to the author’s first book. I agree that we need to have boundaries with our technology usage, but the author hit us over the head constantly with her thoughts on this topic instead of just filling the book with many great ideas of ways to have fun.

2.5 stars rounded up.
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136 reviews61 followers
January 19, 2024
Wow this did not feel like fun! Read for my Bookclub and felt like a hard slog. I ended up skipping a lot of it. I think it regurgitates a lot of the authors first book, “How to break up with your phone” and it actually ended up annoying me. Too prescriptive, it felt too bossy and I felt bogged down as I read it… 2 stars for the research but not a book I would recommend.
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1,263 reviews85 followers
January 1, 2022
I picked up this book with hopes of being a more fun parent for my kids, but walked away with the additional understanding of the personal benefits of making fun a priority. According to Price, true fun is a combination of playfulness, connection, and flow and can result in improved well-being, health, joy, creativity, and stronger relationships. Active fun is an antidote to our culture of passive, distracted consumption of devices. The parts of the book that talked about prioritizing and focus, and gave advice on how to be less distracted (like taking regular technology-free “Sabbaths”) were some of my favorite parts.

Quotes and Notes:

-“I’ve become convinced that our phones and other wireless mobile devices, which are sometimes referred to as WMDs (weapons of mass distraction), are pulling our internal compasses seriously off-track, insinuating themselves into our lives in ways that aren’t just scattering our attention, they are changing the core of who we actually are.”
-“The fact that we can’t split our attention means that whenever we make a decision about what to focus on in any given moment, we are also implicitly making a decision about what we’re not going to focus on.”
-To improve fun in your life: SPARK:-make Space -Pursue passions -Attract fun -Rebel -Keep at it
-Developing a fun mindset: be easy to laugh, give attention, seek delight (our lives are what we pay attention to), and savor positive moments
-Rebel against habit and routine by spontaneously micro dosing on fun and connection (like spontaneous, brief connection phone calls)
-Interests, hobbies, and passions make you more interested and interesting
-Embrace the discomfort of being a beginner
-Prompts for discovering things to try: I’m interesting in learning to…I’m interested in learning about…I’m curious about…I’d like to try…I’d like to get better at…It might sound silly, but I’d love to…When I was a child I enjoyed…Things I used to do with my free-time but don’t anymore…Things I always say I want to do or learn, but supposedly don’t have time for…I feel alive when I…set a timer for a full 15 minutes to reflect and write on these prompts (remember you don’t have to actually do everything you brainstorm, you’re just coming up with your fun possibilities)
-Set limits on the number of times per day you check and respond to email (or whatever distracts you on your phone)
-make a daily list of your not to-dos; preemptively identifying your most time-sucking activities and consciously deciding not to let them hijack your day (Facebook, online shopping, etc…); preserves time and space for spontaneity to occur
-“How to Break up with your phone” – first you want to figure out what you actually want to be doing with your time, otherwise you are going to be trying to resist your impulses using your sheer willpower, which isn’t effective; then you will find yourself with less time to spend on screens, and less of a desire to spend time on them because you’ll have a long list of things you would rather be doing instead; phone will be transformed from a temptation you must resist to an obstacle that’s getting in the way of how you want to live
-Regularly take breaks from devices…digital Sabbath. This disconnection helps create space that can then be used for activities and traditions that leave you nourished and refreshed
-Set rules for screen time like don’t look at your phone for the first and last hour of the day
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625 reviews24 followers
January 30, 2023
This book had been referenced in some other reading I was doing, and luckily my library had it on hand. (I hate buying “self help” books because often I read them in a day or so just finding a few nuggets of interesting information and never re-reading.)

I was also reading The Fun Habit by Mike Rucker this week, and finding it hard to connect to in terms of my own life. Fortunately, Catherine Price’s book is filled with concrete ideas for understanding what makes certain activities fun and determining your own fun factors. She’s done some research, and if you read these kinds of positive psychology books, you’ll know the sources (everyone from Victor Frankl to Martin Seligman) and also won’t be too surprised to read about “dopamine hits” and how screen time wreaks havoc on our connection to life and to others, which ultimately makes us numb, lonely and leading unsatisfying lives. Embracing playfulness, flow and connection are the keys to having more fun. And, no surprise, get off social media and your phone! She says this about a million times but I think it probably can’t be said enough.

The solutions are in a way kind of obvious, but she gives tons of examples for how to increase your “true fun” which is what makes the book 4 stars versus 3.

Some of the discussions and examples were drawn out and a bit wordy at times with very long explanations that (for me anyway) were not always needed once the point was made. I prefer a more bullet style approach to this kind of book and wished she had done little summaries at the end of each section and also a few more nicely formatted and organized worksheets for the process she asks you to go through in terms of finding your true fun. This is what makes the book 4 stars and not 5 for me.
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924 reviews163 followers
May 8, 2022
I'm wildly uncomfortable with the subtitle of this book (which implies I feel zombified now...which is only true some of the time!), but the content is so helpful, lightly comic yet nonetheless earnest and well-researched. Price insists on the importance of activities, relationships, and experiences that break out of routinized productivity (which is not that productive anyway, as she points out) and intensify our presence in the moment and our access to joy and a sense of self--not to mention connection with others--that exceeds the bounds of obligation. Writing to a presumed audience (I think) of midlife professionals, Price asks her readers to allow themselves to play.

During the first two years of the pandemic, I started taking an art class online, and I had not drawn or painted since I was a child. I didn't do it to be "good" at it but just to enjoy observation and color and full immersion in the experience. Since then, I draw regularly in the online company of a group of women from all around the country, many of whom are retired, and after drawing in silence for a while, we talk and laugh and share insights. I always feel so much happier after those "drawing happy hours." I love being creative, perhaps especially in a medium that I don't hold myself accountable to, and I have so enjoyed getting to know these women through talking about the process of drawing and sharing our tentative sketches. It allows us to talk about life and to connect. This is exactly the kind of thing that Price encourages, both because it enhances day-to-day feelings of satisfaction and energy (hence the title), and also because fun helps to give life meaning, to make each day memorable.

She gives some great pointers about thinking about your own memories of delight and figuring out what circumstances set you up for fun. (This sounds so hokey as I describe it here, but it's very helpful!) In the afterword, she talks about writing this book during pandemic lockdown, which must have been so bizarre because so much of it is about being social in trying a new activity or acting silly on purpose. She asks readers to reflect on fun people they know and what makes them fun. I thought about dear friends of mine who used to throw a pirate party every year and who made the activities (and the costumes) more elaborate every year. People would drive in from out of town because they knew the pirate party would be an incredible, playful, over-the-top weekend.

In any case, I've been keeping Price's pointers in mind recently, as I cherish time spent in the garden and recently booked a kayaking day trip to see dolphins. (I, um, don't kayak. But I do love marine mammals. Fingers crossed it turns out to be fun rather than life endangering!) Price is writing to a privileged audience, and she doesn't go into the capitalist structures that both acculturate us to thinking of our time as currency and also extend working hours and communications into more corners of our lives. That's not really her purpose here, so her advice on how to clear time for fun is fairly limited (fewer screens, delegate or share responsibility where possible), but I love her endorsement of play and creative flow as well as of gratitude. Her citations included William James and Ross Gay, so I'm sold.
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67 reviews2 followers
January 31, 2024
Okay, this slapped. I know what you’re thinking: why read about fun when I can just go and HAVE fun? My dude, thanks so much for asking. It’s because when you don’t know what specifically creates fun, the search for it can be kind of hit or miss. At least for me, I can do the same activity in different scenarios and sometimes think it’s a blast and sometimes find it kind of dull. Conceptualizing fun as the intersection of playfulness, connection, and flow helped me identify exactly what separates those super fun experiences from the less fun ones. Now I can use that knowledge to prioritize activities that will actually bring fun, instead of doing things “for fun” that don’t actually hit.

I also found a lot of value in identifying that criticism, judgement, and distraction are fun killers AND that even for introverts, big fun happens in connection with others. As someone prone to a lot of phone checking (distraction, the opposite of flow), self criticism (judgement, which stifles playfulness), and sometimes hiding in the corner avoiding eye contact (not exactly connection), it kind of hit home for me where I can make small adjustments and get more fun out of my existing activities/experiences.

Tl;dr, y’all should read about fun.
1 review
December 28, 2021
Unscientific and from perspective of privileged upper middle class

Endless extrapolation of anecdotes from her own life to universal truths without a hint of humility. In love with the trope that Life was so much better is the past and Technology has ruined us, despite ample evidence of exactly the opposite.

She may have some fun ideas buried in here, but her arrogance and ignorance made the book unreadable.
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Author 3 books258 followers
December 21, 2021
Fantastic book! Beautifully written and evidence-based. So relatable and so actionable. And it turns out, True Fun is possible for everyone, not just "fun people." This book is having a real impact on how I see myself and the small+big choices I make. Highly recommend!
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207 reviews
September 5, 2023
For a book about fun, I found this book really… dull. I think addressing the issue and need to distance from technology is helpful but I was disappointed to find that was a very significant part of this whole book. If I wanted that, I would have read her other books, but i didn’t feel like this equipped me in any way for more fun.

I was hoping for a bit more on how to make the mundane things more fun - meals, evening routine, friend gatherings etc. but that was very limited and instead, it was just a lengthy list of additional commitments that I don’t want to add. The last half was better and I did like the chapter titled “Attract Fun” but the best parts of this book were references from one of my favorite books - the Art of Gathering, so in the end I think this is one to skip over and just go straight to the Art of Gathering.
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105 reviews23 followers
February 16, 2023
[audiobook] I feel like every adult should read this. “Fun” is such a vague and personal concept when you really think about it, and Price did an exquisite job defining the real experience of what she calls “True Fun.”
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161 reviews2 followers
November 8, 2022
While there are many great suggestions and helps to find fun and happiness in life, I do feel like it was repetitive, and could have been made into a much shorter book.
It was nice to be reminded of what fun actually means and to make sure I am having more of it.
With all that being said,, I would recommend this book to someone who is stuck and unable to find joy in their lives.
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340 reviews10 followers
February 26, 2022
My main theme for the year is to be/have more fun. This is scary, partly because True Fun, as described in this book, is the intersection of playfulness, connection and flow - and I don’t even know how to be playful anymore! Trauma has hardened me. And I’m tired of feeling off balance. This is one of my sacred texts for the year. ♥️
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13 reviews
May 20, 2022
How on earth can a book about fun be so not fun!
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241 reviews5 followers
June 15, 2024
What I thought I was getting: a book about how to bring more fun into your families lives. What it actually was: a book quoting many facts about the benefits of fun on your brain and life quality. The content was good, but the first third of the book was her basically rehashing her “How to break Up With Your Phone” book. We all know phones are addictive and turn us into zombies. The only interesting term I took out of this whole section was the idea of “fake fun”, which is what mindless scrolling or binge watching is. Otherwise, I feel like I could have just watched an hour TED talk about the importance of fun, how to identify your source of fun, and how to achieve it. But her delivery and personal examples weren’t super relatable for me because I have 4 young kids to her 1. I’m not about to take up learning how to row crew, go to a swing dance camp, or do improv. That just doesn’t fit my lifestyle right now. But it did make me realize that I shouldn’t feel guilty for time to myself, or just time away with friends, doing things I love. There is value in that and it should be a priority. But at this point in my life I need practical ideas of how to implement fun in my family and that was not really what this book was. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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477 reviews
August 12, 2023
I loved this book and I loved reading it ahead of a new school year. Catherine Price explores how "true fun" occurs through a "confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow." Price dives into the science behind fun and how it impacts our physical, mental, and emotional wellness. It helps you reflect on how you can live a life with greater intention, notice daily delights, and pursue and savor experiences, interests, and hobbies that truly bring joy into your life. Microdoses of fun are everywhere if you're willing to notice them and embrace it. Price is not arguing for us to skirt all responsibilities and ignore the harsh realities of our world. However, when "true fun" is our guiding star, this pursuit "helps us stay true to our authentic selves, with less time spent on mindless distraction and empty pursuits and more time devoted to people, experiences, and activities that bring us a sense of meaning and joy."
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62 reviews1 follower
March 13, 2024
Like a lot of non-fiction, this could’ve been an article or a TED talk and gotten the same points across. Definitely interesting and I agree with the points. Maybe I’ll stop trying to like audiobooks and have fun instead.
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135 reviews7 followers
June 5, 2023
I really enjoyed this and think she had a lot of great ideas that resonated with me. I don’t like the subtitle and feel like the book is best read as an informative piece with ideas to try vs self help. I listened to the audio but think I would recommend a physical copy of the book. I want to reread and take notes.
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