With the challenges of everyday life, it's easy to lose sight of the value of fun. Science journalist Catherine Price joins us to discuss her new book The Power of Fun and why fun and play are important parts of a fulfilling life. Listen in to how you can have more fun in retirement and the benefits you may not expect.

We discuss:

The backstory that inspired her to write her new book The Power of Fun

What gets in the way of fun for adults

The three main components of fun (you'll want to know to have fun in retirement)

How fun is good for you - including ways that may surprise you

How you can tell the difference between True Fun and Fake Fun

How she's brought more Play into her life

How to have a healthier Screen-Life Balance

How to find new interests, passions, and hobbies

The value of trying new things

Preventing perfectionism from getting in the way of trying something new things

The main messages she wants people to take away from The Power of Fun

Catherine Price joins us from Philadelphia.

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Bio

Hailed in The New York Times as "the Marie Kondo of brains," Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist, speaker, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life (Ten Speed Press), among other books. Her newest book, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again (Dial Press) will be released in December 2021. As a speaker, consultant and workshop leader, Catherine helps individuals and organizations create healthier personal and professional relationships with their phones (and other devices), and establish best practices to encourage creativity, productivity and mental health. In other words, she helps people scroll less, live more, and have fun.

How to Break Up With Your Phone has been published in 30 countries and featured in scores of high-profile media outlets around the world, including NPR, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Wired, Vox, Refinery29, BBC World News Service, and many others. A New York Times article about Catherine and her 30-day program titled " Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain,” went viral, receiving more than 2 million hits in less than a week.

Catherine is also the creator and founder of Screen/Life Balance, which is dedicated to helping people learn how to scroll less and live more. Screen/Life Balance is part of Catherine’s continued mission to create evidence-backed resources to help people around the world design lives in which they control their technology, rather than the other way around—with the ultimate goal of increasing happiness, productivity, creativity, health and wellbeing.

Catherine speaks, consults, and leads workshops on how individuals and corporations can set better boundaries with — and best practices for — their devices in order to maximize creativity and productivity, improve mental health and brain function, reduce burnout, spend more time doing the things that actually matter to them...and have more fun! Her engagements can be customized based on audience size and area of interest, but they are always compelling and actionable, chock-full of what Catherine calls "science-backed self-help."

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For More on Catherine Price

Pre-order The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again (December 21, 2021)

The Power of Fun Website with a free quiz and resources

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food

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Wise Quotes

On What Gets in the Way of Fun