Greetings, everyone.

I hope you are enjoying your fun to mention with author and fun expert, Catherine Price.

If you'd like to hear more about bringing joy and play into your life, our amazing teacher

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Alrighty, enjoy the episode.

Hi, this is Catherine Price and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday morning.

Today is day three of our fun to prevention based on my new book The Power of Fun.

On Monday and Tuesday, we talked about what fun feels like, and we discussed my proposed

definition of fun, which is that fun is the confluence of three psychological states,

playfulness, connection, and flow.

As you listened, you might have noticed that when I talk about fun, I often refer to it

as true fun, and you may have wondered why.

I do so as a way to distinguish it from what I call fake fun, which is true fun's evil

ultra-ego and is what I want to talk to you about today.

Fake fun is my term for activities and products that are marketed to us as fun, but they do

not actually produce feelings of playfulness, connection, or flow.

Some of the most common examples include social media, or spending hours upon hours binge-watching

TV.

Much like junk food, fake fun gives us a quick fix of pleasure, but ultimately doesn't

make us feel good.

All you need to do is to pay attention to how the things you do, quote, for fun, actually

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