Catherine recommends getting a notebook and journaling about pastimes in which you experienced true fun. Catherine: List them out and analyze them in detail. Dig into them like a private investigator. Really mine them for details that might help you generate more experiences like that in the future. The universal definition of fun, I would argue, is that it's a state of playful connected flow.
Am I a fun person? That was the question listener Natalie Robinson was asking herself. The answer was sobering. Natalie felt fun was being squeezed out of her busy life... but she found inspiration in the two episodes of The Happiness Lab dedicated to Dr Laurie Santos's own quest to regain the fun and playfulness of her youth.
So here's another opportunity to listen to the concluding part of that story again.
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