Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Learning to have fun - part three - what do you mean "fun"?
After you've explored your own "sense of play" and playfulness, it might be time for you to contemplate what exactly fun means to you, and you mean by it. A good way to start is by reading what other people say about it. And a good place to start that is this article: Of Fun and Flow.
Flow talks about really big fun - the kind of fun that transforms you, that you risk your very life and limb, or vice-versa, to experience. After you've read that, it will be helpful to balance your perception of all things fun by reading about the gentler, more subtle sorts of fun: what I call Minor Fun.
Sometime later - I'd suggest at least a week after you've contemplated the scale of fun, from major to minor and back - you might risk reading a collection of articles exploring further fun distinctions. The collection is called "54 Flavors of Fun" (there's actually 62 articles in that series, each focusing on yet another "flavor," several describing another minor multitude).
All of which is simply to help you start thinking about fun, because it has been my experience that the more often I think about it, the more often I notice myself having it.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
Flow talks about really big fun - the kind of fun that transforms you, that you risk your very life and limb, or vice-versa, to experience. After you've read that, it will be helpful to balance your perception of all things fun by reading about the gentler, more subtle sorts of fun: what I call Minor Fun.
Sometime later - I'd suggest at least a week after you've contemplated the scale of fun, from major to minor and back - you might risk reading a collection of articles exploring further fun distinctions. The collection is called "54 Flavors of Fun" (there's actually 62 articles in that series, each focusing on yet another "flavor," several describing another minor multitude).
All of which is simply to help you start thinking about fun, because it has been my experience that the more often I think about it, the more often I notice myself having it.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
Labels: 54 Flavors of Fun, having fun
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