Catherine Price

2021

An award-winning science journalist and speaker and the author of How to Break Up with Your Phone. She is also the creator and founder of Screen/Life Balance, which is dedicated to helping people learn how to scroll less and live more. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Slate, Men’s Journal, Self, and Outside, among others.

Are you: Anxious or lonely? Having trouble focusing? Feeling stuck?

YOU NEED TO HAVE MORE FUN.

We think of fun as a self-indulgent luxury. But far from being frivolous, fun is critical for our well-being.

If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living.

The Power of Fun shows why fun matters—and how to have more of it.

Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obsess over intangible concepts such as happiness while obscuring the fact that real happiness lies in the everyday experience of fun. We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a day for what Price calls Fake Fun—bingeing on television, doomscrolling the news, or posting photos to social media, all in hopes of filling some of the emptiness we feel inside.