- It is not the opposite of work.
- You can use to temporarily remove themselves from the assumptions and limitations of collective norm.
- It allows individuals to experiment with new behaviours in a risk-free environment, fostering creativity and innovation.
How to develop it?
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Tinkering and purposeless play is a great way of discovering opportunities that conscious applied thought would never lead you to.
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The most early human discoveries like the flute, flint knapping, knots and pigments came from tinkering rather than through focused thought.
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They weren’t trying to solve any problems, they simply unlocked the potential of objects by accident.
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This is seriously a underused approach,
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Humans become more inventive because of his long childhood - curiosity - play