When this happens, chances are that you have been seduced by what I call “Fake Fun.” As I alluded to earlier, Fake Fun is my term for activities and pursuits that are deliberately designed to fool us into thinking that they’ll produce True Fun but that don’t actually result in playful, connected flow. Fake Fun can be hard to identify at first, because it’s so well camouflaged—it’s engineered to trigger the release of some of the same chemicals that are present in our bodies and brains when we’re truly having fun. But in reality, it’s a mirage of fun that’s been created by people and businesses
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