Hi everyone, Kei Sunga here. I hope you're enjoying your fun to mention with author and

fun expert, Katherine Price. If you'd like to hear more about bringing joy and fun into

your life, particularly over the next few weeks, head to the Headspace app and check out

our Happier Holiday Collection. It features new meditations and videos to help bring joy

to your holiday season. Alrighty, enjoy the episode.

This is Katherine Price and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning. And this marks

the second day of what I am referring to as our fun turvention. A week-long effort

to better understand what fun actually is and get started on having more fun in our lives.

So yesterday if you listen to the podcast, you know that I had a freak out moment on my

couch, where I was taking a break from all my screens and I had this beautiful pocket

of time ahead of me and instead of enjoying that pocket of time, I realized I totally lost

sight of what I want to do with my time. Today I want to tell you what happened next.

Now my last book as I mentioned yesterday was called How to Break Up With Your Phone

and when I wrote that book part of the process of writing it, involved me recruiting this

big group of people who wanted to test out my ideas. I considered them kind of guinea pigs

for the project. And there was a question I asked them that I realized I should ask myself.

And that question was, what's something you always say you want to do but you supposedly

don't have time for? I mean really think about that for a second.

My answer was guitar. My grandmother gave me money in college to buy a guitar. So basically

this guitar had sat in my closet for like 20 years as I like to say attracting dust

and guilt. And in that moment I realized you know what? I learned to play the guitar

and I remembered that I'd seen a flyer not that long ago in my own neighborhood for some

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