True Fun describes the joyful, effervescent, sunshine-like feeling that we get when we’re playful and fully present and engaged, usually with other people. (I define it as the confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow.) True Fun is involved in many of our most precious memories; the more regularly we experience it, the more we will feel like we are fully alive. Fake Fun, on the other hand, describes activities and products that are marketed to us as sources of True Fun but that do not produce exuberant joy; rather than invigorating us, they leave us feeling empty. (Anything that
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