104 - Play in 5 Easy Steps (Showmanship & Play 7 of 30)

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May 14, 2024

Unpacking the five criteria of play: fun, self-motivated, purposeless, rule-based, and imaginative. Discussing the impact of play on learning and neuro perspective. Exploring the concept of play deficit and the importance of play in shaping the brain and imagination.

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

Exploring the Essence of Play and Imagination

04:07 • 16min

Exploration of Child's Imaginative Play with Toy Mice and Objects

20:21 • 2min

Exploring the Depth of Play

22:11 • 9min

Exploring the Five Criteria of Play and Their Significance in Showmanship

30:42 • 5min

In this episode I unpack the five criterias of play. The five are as follows:

1 - Play is fun. It’s intensely pleasurable and enjoyable. So when we play we don’t want it to stop.

2 - Play is self motivated, which means it has to be entered into voluntarily.

3 - Play is apparently purposeless. We play for the sake of playing not to achieve some further goal.

4 - Play has rules.

5 - Play is imaginative and improvisational.

Links:
The Norwegian book called Lek og Læring i et Nevro perspektiv (play and learning in a neuro perspective) Here are some links, One, two, three. The third one is a link to a podcast with an interview with one of the two authors. BE WARNED the links are all in Norwegian, but with the help of google and our AI overlords you'll be reading it in no time, in a language more suitable to your horizon of understanding.

the Kingdom of Childhood episode of the Way of the Showman

Peter Gray's Aeon.co article on Play Deficit

For your selfstudy: Henri Bergson on the possible and the actual.

Finite and infinite games by James Carse

This is a link to a talk by Doctor Stuart Brown who's the author of “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul” (2010) by Stuart Brown

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