107 - Unpacking Play pt 1 (Showmanship & Play 8 of 30)

In this episode I continue to 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