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    Speaker 1 summarizes research from a psychology professor that found consciously making time for fun can help prevent burnout. The professor's research showed fun through activities like karaoke and surfing provides benefits like reducing loneliness and stress. While adults are often held back from fun by judgement, making micro-doses of fun a priority, such as playing music at work or joking with colleagues, can make people happier and healthier. Prioritizing fun through social connection is especially important after the isolation of the pandemic.

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    Speaker 1 summarizes research from a psychology professor that found consciously making time for fun can help prevent burnout. The professor's research showed fun through activities like karaoke and surfing provides benefits like reducing loneliness and stress. While adults are often held back from fun by judgement, making micro-doses of fun a priority, such as playing music at work or joking with colleagues, can make people happier and healthier. Prioritizing fun through social connection is especially important after the isolation of the pandemic.

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    Speaker 1: Ready for the roaring 20 seconds.

    It's me to relearn
    how to have fun. A er a year and a half of loss, sickness and stress
    caused by the pandemic, burnout is high and morale is low. But in
    some posi ve news, the way to feel be er need not depend on
    restric ve diets, gruelling tness regimes or tes ng mental
    challenges, but in something far more a rac ve. Fun. An American
    psychology professor who rose to interna onal fame when her
    course, Psychology and the Good Life became the Ivy League
    University's most popular course of all me, says that consciously
    injec ng more fun into our lives, which she refers to as interven on
    and help prevent burnout but also improve physical health. We
    weren't necessarily priori sing fun before the pandemic, she says,
    but the pandemic really made that worse, in part because some of
    the things we really need for fun involve connec on. She says that
    burnout has risen as a result of the pandemic and le everyone
    feeling even worse. And the more red we become, the less likely
    we are to priori se fun because we are too red. Injec ng fun
    means doing karaoke and pu ng herself into a posi on of
    vulnerability by going sur ng for the rst me. One of her biggest
    realisa ons is that adults are o en prevented from having fun by
    judgement. We would probably all be having a lot more fun if we
    tried new things, just like kids do. They seek out new ac vi es and
    try new things out. They don't beat themselves up if they don't like
    them. But as adults we say, Well, we have the ac vi es that we do
    and we do those and that's it. Why can't we try new things?
    However, fun is not to be confused with hedonism. Priori sing fun
    doesn't mean qui ng your job and constantly having the me of
    your life. Instead, she suggests infusing fun in micro doses into the
    day, such as playing music at work or engaging in wi y banter with
    colleagues to make the day a li le bit more joyful. Despite its
    frivolous and childish reputa on, fun is a very serious ma er. Ci ng
    research that found loneliness is as bad for the human body as 15
    cigare es a day. She says that connec on required to have fun is
    proven to make people feel good. But there's also evidence

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    sugges ng that the playfulness part of fun feels really good. Play is
    less associated with things like demen a and even heart disease. If
    everybody priori sed fun, the world would be a happier, healthier
    and safer place, she says. Fun brings people together. It reminds us
    of our shared humanity and encourages us to let down our guard.
    Adapted from The Guardian, September 20th, 21.

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