Are caution signs getting a little alarmist? + Hashtag Monsters Inc Principal or Principle, who really knows

This blog is clearly not going to be as dangerous as walking on a wet floor at MCDs (do you see that guys arms flailing? That is dramatic!)   However a caution is necessary before reading this blog because dududum
There will be some hotsy totsy words used including but not limited to:

1.Paradigm shift
2. hotsy totsy (the hotsiest totsiest word of them all)
3. Sturgeon's Law

The Monsters Inc Principle
Another warning, I am basing my entire argument off of what I like to call the Monsters Inc Principle:
In the movie, the Monsters did not get their energy from coal, wind, water...
Their energy source came from scaring kids.
Each time a child was scared by a monster, energy was produced.
At the end of the movie, they serendipitously realized that energy could be produced from making kids laugh.
Not less energy, not the same amount of energy, but MORE energy.
So...
Laughter = crazy high amount of energy
Scares=minor amount of energy
Laughing=delightful
Being scared=the worst
After this realization, monsters who would continue to scare children rather than attempting to make them laugh to get energy=idiots, masochists

I am afraid that we humans are doing the same thing in schools, in jobs, in life.

By being so serious, I think we are missing the possibility that we could get a heck of a lot more done playing than working.

By leaving the playing for the kids (and in some unfortunate instances not even leaving the playing for the kids)  we are throwing away what we do best and doing what we do with mediocrity.

A huge paradigm shift occurred in Monsters Inc (Paradigm shift =CHANGE IN BELIEFS/IDEAS ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE)

I believe we NEED that huge paradigm shift.

KAREN's KEY ASSUMPTIONS
People who are happy and like what they do are better at what they do and offer more to the world
People let responsibilities/fears/limiting believes limit their output
People create value when they are in their flow
*I use flow interchangeably with play and will take future blogs to explore this idea
*What I mean by flow: being completely engaged in an activity, synapses firing
Many people are in jobs where they do not get to experience flow
We can design jobs, situations that allow people to play/flow



Sturgeons Law: 90% of everything is crap
(See this article for more clarity: http://m.guardiannews.com/books/2013/may/19/daniel-dennett-intuition-pumps-thinking-extract)
We are absolutely inundated with crap,
questions, ideas, art...
Time is too limited to focus on crap, but I feel that's all that people focus on.  There are thoughts to be had and we putz around in the mundane.  Ahhhh I can't do it, we gots to play more.  However, because it is such a foreign concept, takes creativity and questioning, we actually have to work really hard to become deliberate to play more.