You Should Have More Fun This Summer. Here’s Why.

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Education, Science

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Are we all so busy doom-scrolling and binge-watching that we’ve forgotten how to have fun? Real fun. Tingly-all-over, natural-high, I-hope-this-never-ends fun. Catherine Price thinks so. But don’t despair. Her latest book, “The Power of Fun,” is jam-packed with research-backed hacks for finding meaning, forging connections, improving your health, and living life to the fullest. All while having a darn good time. (This episode first aired in May 2022.)

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:01.0	Hey folks, how was your 4th of July?
0:11.9	Nice weather, tasty food, good company.
0:15.8	Would you describe it as fun?
0:18.7	Fun is a word that I would use to describe my long weekend.
0:22.7	It involved a combination of kids, beach, cookouts, and lots of rosé-sipping friends.
0:28.7	I learned something this weekend.
0:30.4	It turns out if you wear a straw hat with rubber duckies hot glued to the perimeter, people
0:35.7	will stop you on the street and ask, where did you get that hat?
0:40.3	This makes possible two of my favorite activities, embarrassing my children in public while
0:44.8	meeting new, like-minded people.
0:48.3	The straw hat experiment this weekend reminds me of a great conversation I had last year
0:53.5	with journalist Catherine Price about her book, The Power of Fun, How to Feel Alive Again.
0:59.8	So we decided to re-share that conversation.
1:03.8	Catherine makes a persuasive case that it's important to have fun, in addition to being
1:08.6	of course fun.
1:10.8	By the way, if you'd like to see photos and more background on the rubber duckies straw
1:14.9	hat, sign up for my weekly next big idea podcast newsletter if you're not getting it already.
1:21.0	You'll find it if you follow me on LinkedIn.
1:23.6	Just search for Rufus-R-U-F-U-S-Griscom, GRIS-C-O-M.
1:28.0	I think we don't prioritize fun.
1:39.1	We don't think about what fun really is and we do a lot of things that are marketed to
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