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The Power of Fun
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again | Catherine Price
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If youre not having fun, youre not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-beingand shows us how to have more of it. This delightful book might just be what we need to start flourishing.#1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant 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 Funbingeing on television, doomscrolling 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 Funwhich she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flowwill 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? Youll 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 liveswithout feeling overwhelmed. Groundbreaking, eye-opening, and packed with useful advice, The Power of Fun wont just change the way you think about fun. It will bring you back to life.
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I share the general opinion of Littens who posted before me about this book. Even so, I would like to set aside time to take a deeper dive into some of the exercises around identifying what I find as fun. Unfortunately, I‘m much better at finding the un-fun, like my newly plumbed zillion dollar shower not draining. That aside, I would suggest this book to a particular reader.

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thebluestocking
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This book spent too much time convincing me fun is important (and that smart phones ruin fun) and trying to sell me on her (too-off-repeated) definition of “true fun.” In the end, I was left without any concrete ideas on how to have “true fun” and feeling like other methods of the more attainable forms of fun were shortchanged. But I did enjoy some of the research and writing.

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mjtwo
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21 Jan-1 Feb 2022 (audiobook)
Perhaps predictably, I did not find listening to this book to be a lot of fun! Self-help is not really my chosen genre. But I do trust recommendations from EveryDayReading and decided to give it a go.
I found the author/narrator a little grating and her definition of ‘True Fun‘ quite narrow, but I do appreciate the general proposition - I do need to purposely set aside more space in my and my family‘s life for fun.

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mhillis
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The Power of Fun has some practical ideas for having more fun: the state of playfulness, connection, and flow. However, there was quite a bit of repetition both within the book and from her other book, How To Break Up With Your Phone. The author introduced the term “collective effervescence” from Dirkheim which I found fascinating though! I listened to the audiobook and would recommend it as a borrow, not a buy. #JoyousJanuary

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