Pushkin

I just have so many questions to ask you about what you've been up to for this past month.

This is Catherine Price.

Over the last few weeks, she's become my new guru.

I need a guru because I'm on a mission.

A mission to have fun.

As a kid, I used to have fun all the time.

I spent all day playing with friends goofing around and just doing lots of random activities that I enjoy.

But as an adult, not so much.

That's why I've turned to Catherine.

You see, Catherine is the author of a new book called The Power of Fun, How to Feel a Life Again.

And I've asked her to use her expertise to give me an emergency fun intervention.

Or funtervention, for short.

So far, Catherine's taught me that fun, by definition, requires a combination of playful connected flow

and that those three parts of an experience are wrecked when you're feeling distracted.

So my homework was to train my brain to focus better by finding delights,

those funny, beautiful, delightful things that are out there all the time, but we tend not to notice.

But today, I'll be tackling a different problem.

Embarrassingly enough, even when I have time to focus and be present, I often just can't think of anything fun to do.

I've sort of forgotten the kinds of things I like and enjoy.

Plus, I'm often so exhausted these days that a lot of the time, I kind of just want to veg on the couch.

So today, I'll be rediscovering what feels fun and learning as Catherine puts it to feel alive again.

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