What You Need To Know to Have More Fun TODAY with Catherine Price

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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301. What You Need To Know to Have More Fun TODAY with Catherine Price We’re back with Fun Expert and author of, Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price, to talk more about fun: what it is and how to have more of it. Today, we’ll discuss whether fun and productivity can coexist, thoughts about women and fun, and why the right to fun might just be innately connected to the human experience AND activism. Discover: -The definitive reason why Abby has the MOST fun and how you, too, can use her fun strategy; -Why fun actually increases creativity and productivity; -Why people view women having fun as offensive and why we must do it anyway; and -Actionable tools you can use to invite more fun into your life! Check out the last episode we did with Catherine and these others about fun, too: 301. FUN: We’re Finally Figuring It Out with Catherine Price 4. FUN: What the hell is it and why do we need it? 62. The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos 63. How to Live a Little Happier with Dr. Laurie Santos 216. How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay On Catherine: Catherine Price is the author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again. She is also an award-winning health and science journalist, founder of Screen/Life Balance, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone. She runs a substack newsletter called “How to Feel Alive” and her TED Talk, Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life, has been viewed close to five million times. IG: @_catherineprice X: @catherine_price To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Pod Squad Squad and welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Today we're back with Fun Expert and author of Fun,
0:18.9	How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price, to talk even more about fun, what it is, what it has the potential to be in our lives, and how to have it.
0:28.0	When we wrapped part one of this conversation, I was saying how I feel it is very difficult to find much fun in
0:34.7	writing anymore because it is now so tied to productivity for me and self-consciousness.
0:41.2	So my first question back for you, Catherine,
0:43.7	is it possible to have fun while doing something
0:47.4	that is based upon your making a living? Do people who love to paint but then suddenly get into the art world
0:56.4	and have a million people looking at their paintings and selling the paintings and now it's
1:01.4	capitalism and do people keep that purity of fun
1:06.7	when it's overlaps with a lot of people's livelihood? I can speak to my thoughts about that and I'd be very curious about Abby's thoughts on that.
1:16.0	To me, yes, as a fellow writer, it's like, I got into this because I love writing.
1:20.0	But then I've been freelance for my entire career and have had no stability, no structure for that matter.
1:25.0	I'm really trying to work on structure on my own life right now.
1:28.0	But you know, you have to follow what the assignments are that people will give you when I try to work it fun but ultimately it's like the ultimate person is the editor right and that's part of the reason I started this sub-stack newsletter is I was like I want to try to get back to writing in a way that feels fun to me. I want to get back to what made me want to be a writer.
1:48.0	And it's been very interesting to see, just I'm at the beginning of this process, but to see my own reaction.
1:53.5	So I'm finding it to be necessary for me to constantly remind myself,
1:58.7	as I'm putting it, to follow my fun where it's like, no, like my instinct is going to be to write a
2:03.6	servicey piece about something that has some science and it blah blah blah but like is that
2:06.8	really what I want to write about or do I want to do something with the essay I
2:09.4	wrote about the time that I dragged my husband to water aerobics in
2:12.1	Lafayette with me or the time that he's a true story
2:14.5	accidentally got a perm when we were traveling in China like that's what delights me right but it's
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