Why does time fly when you’re having fun? How do you teach rats to play hide and seek? And what does all this have to do with Anne Boleyn?
And we would run around and play all these pranks like pushing all the elevator buttons in the elevator and then watching everybody have to wait.
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What makes something fun?
We can publish in psych science after this.
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So the other day we got an interesting letter from one of our listeners, Sid Morrer.
And Sid writes, as I was cross country skiing today, I was pondering the nature of fun.
I'm a fairly proficient skate skier and I enjoy skiing with others, but I can still have a great deal of fun zipping along on beautiful ski trails alone.
But going to get an ice cream cone with a friend can also be very fun.
Where the ice cream is unique, black forest springs to mind, or even sometimes when the ice cream is actually lousy.
I have also recently greatly enjoyed learning to be a ukulele player.
So what is the true essence of fun?
Furthermore, how can we find more of it in our lives?
Well said.
I think that this is such an interesting question and it's something that I've thought about actually quite a bit.
Because a few years ago for my last book, I ended up leaving the world of journalism to play a game for a good chunk of my life.
And for one year, while I was researching the book, I played a game full time.