Search "how to have fun" on Google and literally billions of search results come up. People pay hundreds of dollars to hire party coaches and play coaches. There are seminars and workshops on how to ...

Pleasure is an enigmatic aspect of human experience—a motivational mechanism that drives a significant amount of our behavior. This is especially true if we find our fun in exciting and engaging ways.

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 ...