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Tuesday 13th July 2010
I've written before about the importance of play for creative thought and I emphasise curiosity and play every time I speak or run a workshop. And that's because play frees up the mind, breaks the hold of the rational brain and let's us make connections that otherwise would not have happened.
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Tag: play
Tuesday 27th April 2010
We all got to play with crayons when we were little kids. But as we grew up, our teachers and our parents took them away or talked us out of using them - instead, we had to learn 'serious' and 'sensible' stuff. We (mostly) turned away from our creative, right-brained way of looking at the world, knuckled down, did what was expected and worked hard. In doing so, gradually we put away the things of childhood, crayons included.
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Tags: thinking, creativity, play
Tuesday 6th April 2010
I woke up one day last week and realised I had lost a critical business asset, perhaps my most critical asset. What had disappeared was my sense of humour, my willingness to have fun, my ability to play.
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Tags: reflection, creativity, recharge, play, workplace, ted