Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?

…3: that's my job. And I just thought, oh my God, Speaker 3: I like to think of myself as a self-aware person Speaker 3: who lives fully and I can't think of anything to do. Speaker 3: And so I asked myself a question. I asked when Speaker 3: I was writing How to Break Up With Your Phone Speaker 3: that I post to you all today now, which is Speaker 3: what's something you say you want to do, but you Speaker 3: supposedly don't have time for? ◈ 4:06 Hmm. Because what I realized Speaker 3: is I did have time. In fact, I had this Speaker 3: reclaimed time, but I didn't know what I wanted to Speaker 3: do with it. So I said, well, I want to Speaker 3: learn how to play the guitar because I play piano. Speaker 3: I had a guitar that my grandmother had given me Speaker 3: money for in college. So I started going to this Speaker 3: guitar class and I started being filled with this feeling, Speaker…
…3: that's my job. And I just thought, oh my God, I like to think of myself as a self-aware person who lives fully and I can't think of anything to do. And so I asked myself a question. I asked when I was writing How to Break Up With Your Phone that I post to you all today now, which is what's something you say you want to do, but you supposedly don't have time for? ◈ 4:06 Hmm. Because what I realized is I did have time. In fact, I had this reclaimed time, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with it. So I said, well, I want to learn how to play the guitar because I play piano. I had a guitar that my grandmother had given me money for in college. So I started going to this guitar class and I started being filled with this feeling, Speaker… The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · source

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