Abhijit
A marketing professional turned Executive Coach and Human Potential explorer. Never ran before in life - but recently managed 8 races in 15 months ( 4 half. 4 Full) in 3 continents ( Asia, Australia and USA
What blew my mind 2. Exercise & Fitness. Music. All about TEA. Innovation & Creativity. Visual Thinking / Mindmaps. Storytelling. Design Thinking. 45 Design Thinking Resources for Educators - InformED : Tembosocial-gamification-infographic1.jpeg (800×2368) Content curation. My book. Human Potential. Leadership. The Power of Play. But there is also evidence that play does much more.
It may in fact be the highest expression of our humanity, both imitating and advancing the evolutionary process. Play appears to allow our brains to exercise their very flexibility, to maintain and even perhaps renew the neural connections that embody our human potential to adapt, to meet any possible set of environmental conditions. And it may be that playfulness is a force woven through our search for mates. Certainly, playful people are the most fun to be around.
The Purpose of Purposelessness. Play Makes Us Human V: Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work is Play. In *last week's essay* I described the characteristics of work, and the attitudes toward it, that allow many people in today's society to experience their work as play.
Now I want to expand on those ideas by describing hunter-gatherers' toil-less manner of sustaining themselves. As I noted in the *introductory essay*, this whole series on "Play Makes Us Human" was inspired by my immersion in the research literature on hunter-gatherer band societies. Wherever they have been studied--in isolated parts of Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, and elsewhere--such societies have been found to be extraordinarily playful. The Value of Play I: The Definition of Play Provides Clues to Its Purposes.
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