The 3 ingredients for fun: an expert's formula for experiencing genuine delight
Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, unpacks why it can be so difficult for adults to have fun, and how people can find ways to incorporate fun into their life.
by Andrew Limbong
Jan 18, 2024
3 minutes
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Search "how to have fun" on Google and literally billions of search results come up. People pay hundreds of dollars to hire party coaches and play coaches. There are seminars and workshops on how to have fun in life.
What's so hard about having fun?
Packed schedules and the pressure to succeed discourage people from taking a step back and unwinding. For some of us, the guilt of not being productive makes fun, well, not fun.
"Everyone is so busy but yet unfulfilled," Catherine Price, the author of The Power, told NPR.
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