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Manfred comments on How can one change what they consider "fun"? - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: AmagicalFishy 21 November 2014 02:04AM

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Comment author: Manfred 21 November 2014 02:40:37AM 11 points [-]

The only thing that I've found to really change how fun something is for me is to do it with other people.

Comment author: AmagicalFishy 23 November 2014 07:53:15PM 0 points [-]

You know, I consider myself to have pretty excellent social skills—but I just don't like doing things with other people. I can confidently say that doing mathematics, or any type of problem-solving activity with other people lessens the amount of fun I have doing it.

Maybe I just haven't found the right people? There are a couple of friends I have who I enjoy discussing problems with, but all of us similarly agree that the bulk of the work is more fun done alone.