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Welcome to the Ted Health Podcast. I'm Dr. Shashana Ungerleiter.

On today's show, we learn the importance of having fun with science journalist Catherine Price.

She not only rewrites the definition of fun, she also tells us how to have more of it.

And after, I'll delve into the importance of playfulness and what happens to your body when you play.

I guarantee it'll be fun.

You know, it's a lot harder than it seems like it should be, actually feeling alive.

And what I mean by that is that we are all constantly doing, or at least for constantly scrolling,

but we're not necessarily living. You know, we keep ourselves busy to the point of exhaustion,

but we're also languishing. We feel a little bit dead inside.

I think we know that on some level. I think that's part of the reason we keep ourselves so busy and distracted to begin with.

But we don't know what to do about it.

So I'm here to tell you, I figured out what to do about it.

We need to have more fun.

So you might think that you're already having plenty of fun.

And that's because in our everyday speech, we often use the word fun to describe anything we do with our leisure time,

even if it's not actually enjoyable and in fact a waste of time.

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