Here’s a great TED talk by Stuart Brown on the serious importance of play. The opening story about how a polar bear and husky opt for play instead of predation is pretty amazing. And I loved these lines: “nothing lights up the brain like play” and “the opposite of play is not work it’s depression”.
Hat tip David Smith’s daily feed
An project with the Oxford Praxis Lab
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
Duh, Bor-ing « Commentary Magazine I know it sounds trite, but this thought piece on the nature of boredom is really pretty interesting.
For some reason the last 3 entries here vanished. Very strange. I’m trying to figure out what happened; apologies for any inconvenience. If anyone has come across a similar problem
Rob Poynton emailed me this little video from basset.tv. In it Dr. Deborah Gordon explains her theories behind ant swarms and how swarm intelligence is manifested in formic communities. We
Two interesting items from David Smith‘s excellent daily feed. If you want to get productive, get disorganised. Simon Caulkin riffs on the theme of A Perfect Mess. Tim Oren on
