Overcoming challenges and finding your flow...through play! - with Jeff Harry of Rediscover Your Play

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#066 - International speaker and founder of Rediscover Your Play Jeff Harry explains how adopting a child-like mindset and embracing play at work can help you overcome challenges and find fulfillment.

What you'll learn

• [1:38] How to use the concept of play to practice having hard conversations in a way that creates a safe place for everybody.
• [2:34] How a movie about toys in his childhood set the trajectory of Jeff’s career and led him to Rediscover your Play.
• [5:19] The benefits of allowing yourself to be in flow at work and when solving a problem.
• [6:56] Jeff explains how he trains people to feel how to be that toxic person in the office and then practice how to deal with them.
• [9:34] The process of learning how to address your inner self that allows you to deal with a toxic person and eventually change the dynamic of the organisation.
• [12:36] How to find your “zone of genius” by embracing your weird and curiosity.
• [16:25] How COVID times have enabled people to rediscover that they are their own expert.
• [17:33] The process of adopting a childlike mindset by being open to saying yes over and over again.
• [21:18] How your friends can help you work out what puts you into a state of “flow”.
• [25:34] How to prime your mind to look for positivity and opportunity with a play-oriented mindset.
• [29:36] Why your brain is designed to emphasise negative bias and how to catch those negative thoughts.
• [31:25] The techniques to identify your inner critic, name it, disassociate with it and then embrace your inner superhero.
• [35:02] The many ways you can embrace your play and figure how to play even in uncertain times.
• [37:12] Being willing to let your nonsense come through and embrace play.

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/66

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