I recently had a fun afternoon in the studio with members of a Massachusetts running

club.

I don't often have this much fun during a recording session, but having fun was actually

the topic we'd all gathered to discuss.

You see, even though they started out as a running club, the members have started

to meet for some very different activities, inspired by something I talked about on

the Happiness Lab.

I remember in your podcast you were saying like, I'm a fun person but I don't really have

that much fun.

This is Natalie Robinson, and she could totally relate to the lack of fun I was experiencing

in my life.

The kids were little.

It was so easy to have fun like you take them to the zoo, take them to the water park,

and then when they get older, there's less things to do that are that pure fun.

And so when we heard your podcast, we were like, yeah, are we fun?

Like, do we even have fun anymore?

Like, let's have more fun.

Natalie told the rest of her running club about what she'd heard on the Happiness Lab that

you could inject playfulness and fun back into life with a little bit of deliberate effort.

And so they got together and planned fun interventions or what I called in the podcast,

funterventions.

Scavenger Hunt was definitely a lot of playfulness because we engaged with the public.

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