You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and serious….

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….

With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewher….

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want..

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and….

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….

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer..

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you..

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

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 ….

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….

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..

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning..

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….

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, ….

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined b….

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's t….

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 have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressi….

Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people..

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….