Stuart Brown : Play is more than just fun

Stuart Brown at Serious Play 2008
Play is more than just fun  (transcript)
Summary
This is an unfortunate story. The speaker didn't receive a grant to study about play. It's because it's thought that play is just playing and there is an old thought there.

However, it turned out that play was biologically and practically important like sleep and dreams. It's not our preparation for being adults and the future but our basic for survival and public health.
We have to keep playing in our lifetime, and we don't have to forget it.

However, it doesn't mean to think that work and play are different and also we need both times to work and play. It seems to be better to be combined and infused, and then we would receive a byproduct of the play.

And then social play makes our cognition, emotions, and physicals develop. Especially playing with our hands early in life leads to creating a skill to solve problems.

However, l think that playing by using smartphones with hands won’t be  worth it.

Play must be our inherent Animal sensation.
We have to enjoy naturally and we must not ignore to play signals. We have to listen to our inner voices that are curiosity and exploration.

Words in this story
insight /noun/  intuition, discernment, perception, awareness, understanding
clinical /adj/  detached, impersonal
improvisation /noun/  impromptu,  unrehearsed, unprepared
flirtation /noun/ play, fun