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Dr. Gray studies why mammals play, and basically he says play is in our DNA because it’s essential to how we learn to deal with adversity. Play is at the heart of how we grow in the face of challenge. Play trains us to think on our feet and solve problems in the moment. This means being playful encourages us to experiment. It gives us a willingness
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But thinking about play as a disposition, rather than as merely engaging with a game, reveals something more fundamental at work. Much of what makes play powerful as a tool for learning is our ability to engage in experimentation. All systems of play are, at base, learning systems. They are ways of engaging in complicated negotiations of meaning, i
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