Creativity and Play
When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. So play with your intuition.
— Linda Naiman "Creativity and the Meaning of Work"Perspectives on Business and Global Change, published by the World Business Academy and Berrett-Koehler. March, 1998.
Arthur Molella, Lemelson Center Director,
"Play is serious business. At stake for us are the ways we socialize and teach future generations of scientists, inventors, artists, explorers, and other individuals who will shape the work in which we live. It is safe to say that humans, as a species, have always had a concept of play. But only recently has play begun getting the serious attention it deserves as a source of discovery." (Creativity at Work Newsletter July 02)
Michael Schrage
"Serious play is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation."
Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaughan in their book: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul,
“If we don’t take time to play, we face a joyless life of rigidity, lacking in creativity. The opposite of play isn’t work, but depression. If we’re going to adapt to changing economic and personal circumstances the way that nature armed us to do, then we have to find ourselves having some play time virtually every day.”
Creativity at Work Newsletter: The Serious Side of Play
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