Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts..

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new..

Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Becau….

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure..

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. Bu….

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility..

We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually ….

Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your….

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can..

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying t….

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force..

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent..

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself ….

We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth do….

The universe is not particularly concerned with you..

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, ….

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play..

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful..

Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolde….

If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. Th….

The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these ar….