We use this on the bike rides on a Sunday.
I think it might have been invented by Chris Navarro, who I ride with, but he may have got it from someone else.
There are different classifications of fun, and it's quite interesting to look at these objectively to decide how much of your time you're spending in each classification and how much of your time you're spending in none.
Type One Fun
Type one fun is fun when you're doing it and fun afterwards.
So that would be going out for a wonderful meal with your wife and your friends and having a laugh and thinking about it afterwards and how much fun it was, but probably not drinking because there wouldn't be any penalty for that type.
Type Two Fun
Type two fun is an early seven o'clock Sunday morning bike ride when it's really hard to get out of bed, and you're cycling up to meet the rest of the guys you're riding with and wondering why you're bothering, and then you kick the backside out of it for two hours and then just about get back in time for football and then feel really righteous and brilliant and wonder why you don't do that all the time.
Type two fun is not so much fun when you're doing it, but it's a lot of fun afterwards.
Type Three Fun
Type three fun is not fun when you're doing it and not fun afterwards.
These are the things that should probably be taken out of your life as much as possible.
Some people have a job or a marriage that sits in type three fun.
Understanding how we spend our life and how we use our time (which really is the only currency that we actually have) is interesting.
People like to classify these things, and sometimes it's useful.
Blog Post Number - 3715
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