Getting ready for Playvolution! Much better than the Industrial, Agricultural, and Information combined

There have been dramatic shifts in what people spend their time doing, how they work, how they spend their leisure time, their core beliefs.

Sometimes these dramatic shifts are labeled revolutions,
like the good old Agricultural Revolution that allowed people to stay in one place for a long time, build permanent home sites, and

I think that next revolution that totally transforms the way we do things could be the
the PLAYVOLUTION (even the name beats the others)

When we have a huge cultural shift that play is the way to go.

Life is tough, it is filled with
war, inequality, famine, death...

But by focusing on how bad everything is and focusing on the questions that don't take curiosity, out of the box thinking we are totally wasting our focus and energy.


Not avoided, not made worse,
but when framed in a way so people (not just a few enlightened ones, but the vast majority of people) are able to tackle these problems with hopeless optimisim, watch out, the positive effects are immeasurable.

Right now I will bet the million dollars I plan on having in 2014 that if people went to play instead of work, that if they played complex interesting games rather than conduct mundane, routine tasks the world would have less war, less hunger, less all of the crap.

These guys say it much better than I can and what if they're right? Hash tag goodbye childhood obesity, spelling tests, and TGIF:

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” -Leo F. Buscaglia

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw

"Play is the beginning of knowledge.” -George Dorsey

“Play is so integral to childhood that a child who does not have the opportunities to play is cut off from a major portion of childhood.” -Musselwhite

“Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.” -Roger

"We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”

"Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” -Diane Ackerman

"Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.” Abraham Maslow

Karen's corner
At work today I received a message saying I came highly recommended (I began to have an inkling this call was not for me) and a question about refinancing for a lower interest rate (the inkling was confirmed, I am not a mortgage banker). When I called the man back to see if I could point him in the right direction, he gave me the name of who he was trying to contact. I found her extension and realized it was one small digit away from mine. So of course I immediately consider what Kramer did when his phone number was one digit off from moviephone. "Why don't you just tell me the movie you'd like to see?" The scary thing was when I received the message I was so excited to tell the man about how much he could save if he refinanced and ask him about his financial goals and play nortgage banker.