Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life | Catherine Price

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Have you had your daily dose of fun? It's not just enjoyable, it's also essential for your health and happiness, says science journalist Catherine Price. She proposes a new definition of fun -- what she calls "true fun" -- and shares easy, evidence-backed ways to weave playfulness, flow and connection into your everyday life. After the talk, Shoshana dives into what happens to your body when you play.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.6	Welcome to the Ted Health Podcast, I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger-Liger.
0:12.6	On today's show, we learn the importance of having fun with science-journalist Catherine
0:17.9	Price.
0:18.9	She not only rewrites the definition of fun, she also tells us how to have more of it.
0:25.9	And after, I'll delve into the importance of playfulness and what happens to your body
0:30.6	when you play.
0:31.6	I guarantee it'll be fun.
0:38.2	Hi, I'm Francis Frye.
0:40.0	And I'm Ann Morris.
0:41.4	And we are the hosts of a new Ted Podcast called Fixable.
0:44.8	We've helped leaders at some of the world's most competitive companies solve all kinds
0:49.3	of problems.
0:50.3	On our show, we'll pull back the curtain and give you the type of honest, unfiltered
0:54.4	advice we usually reserve for top executives.
0:57.6	Maybe you have a co-worker with boundary issues, or you want to know how to inspire and motivate
1:02.0	your team.
1:03.0	No problem is too big or too small.
1:05.0	Give us a call and we'll help you solve the problems you're stuck on.
1:08.6	Find Fixable wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:13.2	You know it's a lot harder than it seems like it should be, actually feeling alive.
1:19.9	And what I mean by that is that we are all constantly doing, or at least for constantly
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