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Play Your Game
You’re never bored when you play your own game. You’re bored when you play another’s game. This is Dragon Intuitive’s very first attempt at video blogging. If you’d like to see more let us know and we’ll keep improving. Thanks.
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Attitudes About Play
Today, we talk about play. People seem to have a lot of attitudes about play. One is to see it as frivolous. Another sees it as refuge from a “reality” they don’t like. For some their play is even work. What are your attitudes about play, friends? I see play as a vital form of…
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Smiles And Laughter
I was asked to smile all the time, and I couldn’t figure out why. Then I finally notice that I have a natural frowning mouth. I am often told I look bored and upset even when I’m not. I seem to be scowling normally also. To know if I’m smiling you have to listen to…
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Is It Serious?
Let’s look at these serious situations. Seriousness, hmm. What use is that idea? I do these talks because I am completely willing to be foolish. Is nature serious? Is a hunting wolf serious? I suspect not. I suspect it is just hungry. What would happen if it were serious about hunting? He would need a…
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Time For Play
I once wept at a friends funeral. It was a first for me. He was a dear friend. Had helped me find a place in humanity. Helped me get off the streets. When he was killed by the train I wept, because he had spent a life “trying” and he had been so hopeful. Human…
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Are We Having Fun Yet?
Can anyone tell me what they do in life that isn’t play? I’d say sleep, but dreams are play. So scratch that, the “little death” is play. Cleaning? Cleaning is play too. It’s “Let’s pretend this isn’t dirty after I spend a lot of energy making it look like it’s not.” Cleaning to my standard…
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It’s A Game
The topic is play. Plato has a saying and I’ll paraphrase. He said you can learn more about a person from an hour of play than a year of conversation. What do you think of this friends? Yeahhh, get me in a game of monopoly and you’ll find out! Part of why play is like that…
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Stories Of Life
Who doesn’t have stories? Who does something that isn’t play? I think we are stories. We are stories and we are more. We are the shapers of stories. Problem is, we have some serious issues, like we believe things are serious. Play is permission to do. When we play as kids, we get or give…
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The Game Board
In Taoism, they speak of the way that cannot be named. Friends, we all started from the same space on the game board, but we forgot what we were playing and why. Lose one turn? Regrettably we lose many turns in life, because we have to be “serious.” How many broken dreams do people live with?…
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What Is A Game?
The topic is games. First a question for you. What is a game? If you ask a hundred people what is a game, you will get a hundred different answers. Yes. That is true, and that raises an excellent point. A game is a structured element of thought and activity, among other things, and are…
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Real Life Addicts
There is an addictive quality to games to get that next achievement. People experience that in real life with promotions, new possessions, etc. Most people are “real life” addicts. There is a large movement now with some very significant findings behind it toward using virtual simulations to train people in flexible thinking and to control…
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Game Of Life
Why do people get so defensive about life being called a game? Because it challenges their choices. They question the choices they have made, and thus they have to be able to convince themselves that they had no choice, or only restricted choices. Because in a game “you” have to play it, and they really…
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Game Of People
On games, there are two sides to games and the existence of games. Game play and game design. Both follow the same logic. And I do have to play others games as well as design my own. This is true. Have to, at least in a sense, as the other game designers are very real…
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God Playing Dice
The phrase of Einstein’s about God playing dice with the universe… Einstein didn’t like it but he was unable to disprove it. He wanted to believe in a world that was neatly ordered according to at least somewhat human sensibilities. He had to believe in the intelligibility of the universe. On the subject of quantum…
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What is Fun?
I will open with a question. What is fun? Challenging, engaging activity. There are no wrong answers of course. A diversion from everyday routines. Excellent. Something we enjoy. The original word we likely got the word “fun” from meant mischief, pranks. Interesting that fun seems to involve disruption, something out of the ordinary. Is this…
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We Want to Feel Alive
The human brain has a limited bandwidth. We can only actively process a narrow amount of information at any given time. So in order to manage that, we organize our memories and perceptions into “chunks.” In fact, people generally never see reality as it is, any given situation as it factually is, especially not in…
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Passive Life
Can sitting be fun? I love just sitting and thinking, but if I am waiting for something, I can’t relax so it’s not fun. Ah, but are you just sitting? I like sitting, but I’m not sure I’d call it fun. I like sitting too, and looking out the window. I get excited if I…
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Interacting With All
How much does your life seem to invite engagement? Or if you prefer, do you know how to intentionally have fun? You’re inviting it now. I am, yes. I think having fun is just following your instincts, following what you simply want to do. Can you easily determine what you want to do? I think…
Category: Play
We are a reason to play. When we were children we woke with a desire to play. We wanted our day to happen. Do we still feel that way?
Play is permission to do. When we play as kids, we get or give ourselves permission to do things, if only in our imaginations. We stop playing well as our brains grow up. No one can change our game but ourselves, and how many are bored or lost? The question in life is not “What is my purpose?”. That questions just makes us look really silly. The biggest question in life is “Are we having fun yet?”.
Do we have time in this life to play? We don’t have time in this life for anything but play. I promise you, you don’t.
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world’s most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC)
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Play has been man’s most useful preoccupation.” Frank Caplan