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Playtime

1967

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.

155 min

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26:43

Stuart Brown: Play Is More than Fun

A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults—and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

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2009
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Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy

Spark your sense of wonder and lift your spirits with this collection of fun, creative activities and ideas to help cultivate daily joy, illustrated with full-color photographs and watercolors.

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Andrea Scher
2021
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How Play Energizes Your Kid’s Brain

To the untrained eye, play can seem aimless, repetitive, wild or foolish. But play can offer a window into the developing mind.

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Cassandra Willyard
2020
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Playful Mindfulness: A Joyful Journey to Everyday Confidence, Calm, and Connection

Playful Mindfulness brings together wisdom from the worlds of mindfulness (paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness) and improvisation (making life up courageously as you go along) so readers can find greater confidence, calm, and connection.

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Ted DesMaisons
2019
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The Nature of Creativity and the Courage to Create

In this video we explore the nature of creativity, the idea that creative insights emerge from the unconscious mind, and look at ways to stimulate creativity.

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2016
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The Way of the Holy Fool

What a monk can teach us about living, laughing, and child’s play

Article
Larry Smith Parabola
2002
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The World-Changing Power of Wonder, Delight, and Play

Sometime in the last decades of the 1700s, a Swiss inventor and showman with the delightful name John-Joseph Merlin opened an establishment in London called Merlin’s Mechanical Museum. In modern terms, Merlin’s shop was a kind of hybrid between a science museum, a gaming arcade, and a maker lab.

Article
Steven Johnson
2016
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The Universe Always Has a Plan: The 10 Golden Rules of Letting Go

Do you feel an insatiable drive to fulfill a mission greater than yourself? To be reacquainted with a long-lost desire to follow the excitement of passion, inspiration, and playfulness? Have you reached a turning point in your reality? In this powerful work, spiritual teacher and intuitive Matt...

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Matt Kahn
2020
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Imagination and Creativity