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Using Play to Rewire & Improve Your Brain

Huberman Lab

Play Is Contingency Testing in a Low Stakes Environment

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Play is contingency testing under conditions where the stakes are sufficiently low that individuals should feel comfortable assuming different roles. Play allows children, and adults for that matter, to explore different outcomes in a kind of low stakes environment. The playful mind set is not necessarily about smiling and jumping around or being silly. That's not it at all. But it's really about allowing yourself to expand the number of outcomes you're willing to think about how you relate to those different outcomes.

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