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Why We Should Play at Work As the father of a young child, I bear daily witness to the value and joys of play. I watch my son navigate his world in the purest ways - he looks, touches, pushes, pulls, builds, breaks, throws, and drops… everything.
It's part of his process, his method for learning how the world works.
There’s a research quote many have used, that says "the average first-grader spends 50% of their waking hours engaged in construction play." That's play. It's not planned, it's pure experience. Children don't approach a pile of blocks or Legos with a plan or a spec, they just dive in - building up, tearing down, and learning each time they do it. Play is integral to their understanding of the world, a way to gain insight and empathy.
And it made me wonder: At what point in our life does that typically stop for us?
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