The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

by Catherine Price Dial Books 12/21/2021, hardcover SKU: 9780593241400   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, 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 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 r