NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, about why it can be so difficult for adults to have fun and how people can find ways to incorporate fun into their life.

Fun is hard to take seriously. You don’t see many papers written about fun, for example. There are a lot of good reasons for people spending so much effort trying to define fun. One of the best: it’s ...

Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla says he has difficulty with the concept of fun. Maddie Meyer / Getty Images BOSTON — Joe Mazzulla’s definition of fun became a talking point this past weekend when Rusty ...

In the corpus of the science of fun, there is a type of enjoyment that goes against the grain of seeking comfort and ease: “Type II Fun” (academically more often referred to as “hard fun”). Although ...

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Ms. Bennett is a contributing editor in Opinion who writes on gender, politics and culture. I did something called survival camp as a teenager, an entirely voluntary activity, ostensibly for fun.

Fun is all the rage in corporation these days, writes The Economist. "Software firms in Silicon Valley have installed rock-climbing walls in their reception areas and put inflatable animals in their ...

Youth sports has an attrition problem. "We do a tremendous job at getting kids involved," sport scientist Amanda Visek says. "We do a terrible job at keeping them." The absence of "fun" is often cited ...

Whether you’re looking for a terrific new job or you’re a leader creating great work experiences, a fun workplace is a worthy goal, right? Perhaps not. In fact, I strongly believe that having fun at ...

My husband used to accuse me of not knowing how to have fun. And he was right, sort of, in the sense that his ways of having fun and mine were (and are) very different. Now, as I stumble toward the ...

Are we having fun yet? For some of us, fun is, well, not that fun, you know. What is it that Jack Torrance in "The Shining" said? All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And maybe we take fun too ...