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\"Fun\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagine that your main goal<\/em> in life was to have as much fun as possible<\/strong>. What would your life look like?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m asking this question because I reject the idea that the pursuit of fun, in its maximum, would result in a life of non-stop television, fast-food binging or substance abuse.<\/p>\n

Instead I\u2019d argue that, even if putting fun as the highest goal wouldn\u2019t lead to the ideal life, there is still a considerable overlap. I want to make the case for two points:<\/p>\n

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  1. That serious fun requires effort<\/strong>. Giving up all discipline and effort results in a local maxima of fun which is far lower than the maximum possible enjoyment.<\/li>\n
  2. That fun supports work-related and nobler goals, rather than distract from them<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \n<\/strong>Why People Don\u2019t Like to Think About Fun<\/h2>\n

    What if I told you that you weren\u2019t maximally productive. That is, your current behaviors don\u2019t accomplish the most for the time you invest, you probably wouldn\u2019t require much persuading. After all, we all sense our deficiencies when it comes to procrastination or laziness.<\/p>\n

    But, if I told you that you weren\u2019t getting the most fun, you might require more convincing. Somehow we feel that work is something that can be enhanced by analysis and introspection, but fun is not. Fun is something magical and trying to think about how to have more, destroys the very enjoyment we seek to create.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019m not going to disagree with you. The act of trying to figure out how to have more fun, when you\u2019re playing a game or socializing, usually makes the activity less fun. Fun is spontaneous, so thinking about it too much can undermine it.<\/p>\n

    However, while I believe a mindless, go-with-the-flow approach works best in the moment, that same logic doesn\u2019t apply when structuring your life to have more fun.<\/p>\n

    Serious Fun Requires Sweat<\/h2>\n

    Take travel as an example. You might feel that going on a trip will be more fun than staying at home and playing video games. But, the video games don\u2019t require any advanced planning, whereas the travel might. So if you don\u2019t apply any thought, you\u2019ll end up staying at home.<\/p>\n

    Look at sports. Sports are a classic example of the frustration barrier<\/a>. When you are lousy at a sport, it isn\u2019t much fun to play. But as you gain skill, the sport can become almost obsessively interesting. If you didn\u2019t apply the foresight to practice through the frustrating phase, you would never experience the intensely fun phase of mastery.<\/p>\n

    Being a connoisseur of fun doesn\u2019t mean all your leisure time needs to require years of practice or planning. Instead it means that, as far as having fun is a worthy goal, there are benefits to putting some <\/strong>thought into designing a more entertaining life.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019d rather live an adventurous life, which has richer fun experiences, than a merely entertaining one, which occupies itself with shallower fun.<\/p>\n

    Mindless Fun vs Serious Fun<\/h2>\n

    I don\u2019t want to categorize certain activities as always being mindless fun and others as being serious fun. I\u2019m not going to say Shakespeare is inherently better than South Park, simply because I feel those comparisons are so corrupted by people using high art to signal status.<\/p>\n

    The difference isn\u2019t the activity, it\u2019s the way you pursue it.<\/p>\n

    Imagine one person watches television for six hours straight, because he has nothing better to do on a Friday night. Compare that to a person who, spends the same six hours watching television, but it\u2019s in the deep appreciation of a favorite story. Reveling in the character details, completely fascinated by the broader themes of the work.<\/p>\n

    The difference is between being an aficionado and a drone.<\/p>\n

    Why Serious Fun Supports Serious Work<\/h2>\n

    I don\u2019t believe that fun is the ultimate aim in life. However, I do think it\u2019s useful to think about because I feel fun supports other goals. If you\u2019re saturated in adventures and enjoyment, those experiences enhance the other aspects of your life, rather than detract from them.<\/p>\n

    I get a lot of emails from people wanting to give up online gaming or partying so they can focus on working more. That\u2019s fine, if in their honest assessment, they\u2019ve decided that there are more satisfying ways to use their spare time.<\/p>\n

    However, in most cases, I feel people want to abandon these pursuits, not because they\u2019ve found something better to replace it, but because they feel they should. That watching television, playing World of Warcraft or going to a club is working against their bigger goals.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019ve fallen into this reasoning trap myself. I\u2019ve previously written about giving up television<\/a>, and while I enjoyed the challenge (I still don\u2019t have a television), I think I pursued the goal for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

    Instead of trying to eliminate all those distracting sources of low productivity, I should have been embracing them. Embracing serious fun.<\/p>\n

    How Fun Improves Productivity<\/h2>\n

    The truth is, for almost all my goals, if you asked me whether I\u2019m more productive now or years earlier when I had a more obsessive focus on work, I wouldn\u2019t have to think about it. I\u2019m definitely more productive now.<\/p>\n

    I believe a big reason for this is that seriously pursuing fun, making sure life is as fun as possible, gives you the energy to put back into your more focused pursuits.<\/p>\n

    Again, however, I want to draw a distinction between mindless fun, which is usually done just to occupy time, and serious fun, which is the conscious effort to make your life as adventurous and entertaining as possible.<\/p>\n

    Making my life more fun has occurred on many levels:<\/p>\n

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    • Improving my business, so that the creative work I find incredibly fun is something I can get paid for.<\/li>\n
    • Living abroad, so even acts like going to buy groceries are interesting challenges.<\/li>\n
    • Building my social network, so I\u2019m connected to other people\u2019s adventures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Even more, it\u2019s been accepting that the serious pursuit of fun is productive. And that the ideal life not only accomplished but thoroughly enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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