What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
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What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
Play seems childish and even transgressive to most, and so they miss a major life trick. To be playful is to live true to who you are as a human.
Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.
Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.
Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.
Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.
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Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake. In play, there are no stakes. No boundaries. No right or wrong. No quotas for productivity. It’s an uninhibited state where your spirit can run free.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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we misunderstand play itself, casting it as exuberant, silly, a frippery that signals to us that our children are still young enough to have not yet turned their minds to more weighty endeavours. But play is serious. Play is absolute. Play is the complete absorption in something that doesn’t matter to the external world, but which matters completel
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