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The Power of Fun How to Feel Alive Again

Catherine Price

If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The author of

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The Mel Robbins Podcast

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The Mel Robbins Podcast

Mel referenced the book as an "incredible" guide that outlines three ingredients of fun--playfulness, connection, and flow--and used its framework to explain how to bring more joy into everyday life.

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There's also this incredible book, The Power of Fun by Catherine Price. And she says that fun has three ingredients, playfulness, connection, and flow.

— Episode: Try This Today: 6 Small Ways to Have Mor...

Episode: Try This Today: 6 Small Ways to Have More Fun Even...

Mel referenced the book as an "incredible" guide that outlines three ingredients of fun--playfulness, connection, and flow--and used its framework to explain how to bring more joy into everyday life.

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There's also this incredible book, The Power of Fun by Catherine Price. And she says that fun has three ingredients, playfulness, connection, and flow.

Playfulness means you're not taking yourself too seriously. Connection means fun usually involves other people. Flow means you're immersed in the moment and time disappears.

We Can Do Hard Things

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We Can Do Hard Things

The book was mentioned in the introduction, in the context of talking more about fun, what it is, and how to have more of it.

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We're back with Fun Expert, and author of Fun, How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price, to talk even more about fun, what it is, what it has the potential to be in our lives, and how to have it.

— Episode: What You Need To Know to Have More Fun T...

Episode: What You Need To Know to Have More Fun TODAY with...

The book was mentioned in the introduction, in the context of talking more about fun, what it is, and how to have more of it.

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We're back with Fun Expert, and author of Fun, How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price, to talk even more about fun, what it is, what it has the potential to be in our lives, and how to have it.

Episode: FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine...

Catherine Price, the author of "The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again", explains how to have more fun and access opportunities for fun in everyday life. This book explores the difference between real and fake fun, the mental load's impact on fun, the three ingredients for fun and how to find "Fun Magnets."

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Catherine Price is the author of The Power of Fun, How to Feel Alive Again.

I distinctly remember listening to that episode that you guys did about fun in 2021, walking on a road in New Jersey and thinking, I want to talk to them about fun. So this is really full circle. I'm very excited.

I just thought fun was a fad. I thought it was going to pass. I knew this book was big, but I thought fun was just going to be the thing of the year and then we could just get on with it.

No. But no, it turns out fun is a fundamental thing. I like what you did there.

I feel like my evolution from that because I feel like the analogy is like Abby lives in fun. That's where she lives. Her address is like 555 Fun and Glennon visits fun. She knows where it is and she visits it. And I read about fun in a travel book and I'm like, that looks interesting.

Episode: 62. The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with...

It was recommended for its empirical approach to fun, suggesting it can improve productivity, health, and relationships, a counterpoint to the idea that fun is a frivolous pursuit.

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She's she's more recently gotten obsessed with fun. She has this lovely book called The Power of Fun. And, you know, she's really tried to take this like empirical approach to like, what is fun? What do we get wrong? And how can you build more of it into your life?

But if you look at the research, as Catherine reviews this in such a lovely way in her book, what she finds is like, actually, if you put in more fun, it makes the productivity part better.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

This book resulted from the author figuring out how to fill her time after deciding to break up with her own phone. It explored the concept of real fun, contrasting it with the fake fun promised by technology companies.

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And that's how I wrote The Power of Fun.

— Episode: SOTU Recap: Trump Gets Tarantino-Gory &...

Episode: SOTU Recap: Trump Gets Tarantino-Gory & Award-Craz...

This book resulted from the author figuring out how to fill her time after deciding to break up with her own phone. It explored the concept of real fun, contrasting it with the fake fun promised by technology companies.

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And that's how I wrote The Power of Fun.

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

The speaker mentioned the author's great new book which discusses fun, described as playful, connected flow.

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I tagged in fun expert the journalist Catherine Price who has this great new book called The Power of Fun

— Episode: Staying Sane at Work | Laurie Santos

Episode: Staying Sane at Work | Laurie Santos

The speaker mentioned the author's great new book which discusses fun, described as playful, connected flow.

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I tagged in fun expert the journalist Catherine Price who has this great new book called The Power of Fun

Catherine talks about this idea that fun is playful connected flow

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