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"how do you let go of easy fixes in pursuit of better solutions that are less immediately accessible? To do so takes creativity, which combines originality (conceiving novel ideas), fluency (generating many ideas) and flexibility (navigating between ideas). According to Bateson and Martin, these are all embodied in play."

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato"

""Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the Industrial Age - our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value""

"Hack, play, learn A hack is a tiny, often throwaway, rapid prototype. It's a way of demonstrating the very first part of an idea in a short space of time. I build each one to test how I think something could or should work... Always done at speed, always done with passion, always to scratch an itch and always best if there's some humour or novelty involved."

"[H]ow can race simultaneously be an irrelevance and an obsession? Unsurprisingly, [colorblindness is] rapidly cured in neighborhood selection, school choice and intimate relations..."

1. make time & space 2. forum for reflection on topic at hand 3. challenge assumptions at play 4. self-disclosure 5. analysis of moral implications of action

"To become exceptional you have to put in a lot of hours, but of equal importance, these hours have to be dedicated to the right type of work. A decade of serious chess playing will earn you an intermediate tournament ranking. But a decade of serious study of chess games can make you a grandmaster."

"Storytelling, she wrote in a 2001 essay, "is still the only activity I know of, besides play itself, that is immediately understood and desired by every child over the age of two.""