'Do We Even Have Fun Anymore?' A Listener's Story of Funterventions
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Robinson used to have fun - taking her kids to the zoo or the waterpark - but recently life started getting in the way of her being playful and goofy. Then she heard two episodes of The Happiness Lab in which Dr Laurie Santos wrestled with exactly the same dilemma.
Inspired, Natalie got together with the friends in her running club to throw themselves into fun interventions - funterventions.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was 10 years old, I took part in the New Bedford High School Drama Club's production |
| 0:20.6 | of Peter Pan the Musical. |
| 0:25.6 | I was obsessed with Peter Pan, the boy who never grows old. |
| 0:29.6 | The boy who got to enjoy the fun and games of childhood forever. |
| 0:35.8 | Now that I'm in my 40s, watching old videos of me belting out songs from that musical |
| 0:40.8 | is kind of sobering. |
| 0:42.2 | My 10-year-old self believed that she'd follow Peter Pan's wise example and never lose |
| 0:46.8 | the playfulness of youth. |
| 0:48.5 | But for the last few years, I was allowing the stresses of adulthood to prevent me from |
| 0:56.0 | having fun. |
| 0:57.5 | So I decided to take on a very personal quest. |
| 1:00.5 | I spent a few episodes of this podcast trying to inject a bit more fun back into my adult |
| 1:05.4 | life. |
| 1:06.4 | I did things that pushed me outside my comfort zone, like taking a surfing lesson, and things |
| 1:11.0 | that were just mindless fun. |
| 1:12.4 | I just want to be with you. |
| 1:14.6 | Like singing karaoke. |
| 1:15.8 | I guess you never felt that way. |
| 1:18.9 | I carried out a fun on it, looking at the kinds of things I like doing and asking myself |
| 1:23.5 | exactly why I enjoy them. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | Until I get a kick out of doing absurd stuff with big groups of friends, my fun factors |
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