The Power of Fun

Oct 4, 2024 5:13 PM

Author:Catherine Price

The Power of Fun

'A shortcut to boosting your joy.' Oprah Winfrey

'Accessible and instantly rewarding.' Guardian

'The best self-help book of 2022. This is the book everyone needs to read.' Independent

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When did you last feel exhilarated and light-hearted?

When did you last feel fully alive?

When did you last have fun?

In our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles, the pursuit of fun has become an indulgence. We have forgotten how to relax.

Award-winning science journalist Catherine Price argues that fun is the key to living a more meaningful, fulfilling and happier life. If you prioritize fun, you will:

* Be healthier, less stressed and have more energy

* Find community and a sense of purpose

* Stop languishing and start flourishing

And best of all? You'll enjoy yourself!

Ground-breaking, eye-opening and packed with useful advice, The Power of Fun won't just change the way you think, it will bring you back to life.

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'This delightful book might just be what we need to start flourishing.' ADAM GRANT, author of Think Again

'The Marie Kondo of Brains.' New York Times

Reviews

A shortcut to boosting your joy.

—— Oprah Winfrey

The best self-care book of 2022. This is the book everyone needs to read.

—— Independent

Compared with other approaches to self-care and protecting your mental health, seeking to have more fun is accessible and instantly rewarding.

—— Guardian

Practical, evidence-backed... and an argument that fun isn't optional, but essential.

—— Charles Duhigg, author of bestsellers THE POWER OF HABIT and SMARTER FASTER BETTER

Inspires us to move fun to the top of our priority list and rethink the way we allocate our time. Inspirational, funny, research-packed and full of practical strategies, The Power of Fun is a game-changer.

—— Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global

If you feel like modern adulthood has sucked the fun out of your life, you'll find hope in these pages. With clarity and levity, Catherine Price illuminates why our days are so dull - and how we can have more play and more joy. In a time when so many of us are languishing, this delightful book might just be what we need to start flourishing.

—— Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Sharp, entertaining and persuasive... an essential guide for anyone who can't quite remember what it's like to experience joy.

—— Laurie Santos, The Happiness Lab

An antidote to all the darkness... a guide to tapping into true fun.

—— New York Times

Only a poker player could write this classic book on when--and more importantly how--to fold a bad hand in business, investing, relationships and life

—— Ryan Holiday, author of COURAGE IS CALLING

The opposite of a great virtue is also a virtue. And Quit is the perfect dialectical complement to Grit. Weave these two virtues into your character and live a much more fulfilling life

—— Philip Tetlock, author of SUPERFORCASTING

Quitting is not just an art; it's also a science - and there is no one so uniquely suited to teach us both as Annie Duke

—— Brian Christian, coauthor of ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY

You won't want to quit reading this book, both because it is such a rewarding read and also because its lessons are so important, useful, and memorable.

—— Don Moore, author of PERFECTLY CONFIDENT

Not since Kenny Rogers has an expert storyteller so clearly demonstrated the importance of knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, nor presented a clearer strategy to determine when, instead of merely walking away, it's time to run

—— David McRaney, author of HOW MINDS CHANGE

The novel unfolds over five years as a series of evocative vignettes, with a pulse of jeopardy in the pair's uneasy sense of adult tensions

—— Anthony Cummins , Irish Mail, 'The Best New Fiction'

Enchanting, funny and layered in pathos... Sadie Jones' unusual take on the rural dream is a gift of a book

—— Sarah Langford, author of IN YOUR DEFENCE

A magnificent achievement. So honest, so thorough and so well written, both Angela's search for truth and this book are about the deepest possible experience of transmitted collective/personal trauma.

—— Pamela Steiner, EdD, Senior Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health and author of Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide

Angela Findlay has written a brave and unflinchingly honest exploration of the complex legacy of her German grandfather's activities as a top-ranking Wehrmacht officer in WW2. Her book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the far-reaching impact of transgenerational memory, shame or trauma, and a moving testament to the personal and collective value of reckoning with the past.

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—— Rebecca Abrams, author of The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects and Licoricia of Wincheste

Fascinating ... and extremely courageous work.

—— The Lady

Scull delivers a remarkable history of psychiatry. The final section is a devastatingly effective chronicle of the rise of psychopharmacology and its tendency to regard all mental illnesses as potentially treatable with the right medication. This sweeping and comprehensive survey is an impressive feat

—— Publishers Weekly

A carefully researched history of psychiatry, it provides a critical assessment of the psychiatric enterprise. In the rush to find cures for psychiatric illnesses, Scull believes that there has been a disappointing lack of focus on patients

—— Psychiatric News

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