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12 March 2009
Why play is vital — no matter your age: Stuart Brown on TED.com
A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults — and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age. (Recorded at Serious Play in May 2008, in Pasadena, California. Duration: 26:42.)
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kirsti broadfoot
This is such an important issue = I really like how it is connected to creativity but not in a work productivity’ way. I also appreciated how we can learn so much about what we have lost in our new cultural understandings of being ‘adult’, ‘professional’…. etc….. really interesting!