The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world..

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than….

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do..

The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that ….

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

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited..

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all..

When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're return….

My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or….

There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowl….

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you….

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether..

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard..

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun.".

Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play hard. Yes, you can sa….

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful i….

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

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..

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living..

We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to m….

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actual….