The Importance of Playing

by: Juan Esteban

What do I mean by “playing”?

Understanding your “whole

everything” from a different angle

When you play, you rename

everything that surround you
and the game
Games are
schematic
ways of playing
 “Kids, by playing,
create in their minds
their own reality. They
don’t distortionate,
but they add a
different point of view
from their perspective;
different to what is
established as
normal”
 Different? How?

Being purely
ourselves
“If you want to be creative, stay in part a

child, with the creativity and invention that

characterizes children before they are

deformed by adult society” - Jean Piaget

 Be
careful!
“Therefore, should I...

Dust off my legos?”

Think critically as a kid?”

 Playing is an
art

“The opposite of play is not “You’ve achieved success in your field when you

work. It’s depression” don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or

play”
- Brian Sutton-Smith

- Warren
Art is expressing how we see the worldBeatty
around us
As Pablo once said...
“What has this to do
with blowing
bubbles?”
Do you recall the first time you blew a bubble?
 Games awake sensations
● Concentrati
on
● Organization Feelings awoken
● Confidence while playing
● Curiosity
● Joy “Each player must accept the

cards life deals him or her:

Games have rules, but what’s but once they are in hand,
important is what we do he or she alone must decide
under them how to play the cards in

order to win the game”

-Voltaire
 “All the purity of our being can be
condensed in an act as simple as blowing a
bubble”
 Concentratio
n
People spend 46.9 of their time mind-
wandering

Daniel T. Gilbert
Necessary, but brings
Matthew A. Killingsworth
unhappiness

“A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an

unhappy mind; the ability to think about what is not happening is
a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.”
 Play

Mindfulness
One reason why we
want to be
children again
“In every real man a child is

hidden that wants to play”

- Friedrich Nietzsche
Conclusion
 Definition of playing

“Playing is the dynamic balance between

thinking and living the moment, because
it involves doing both in a fluent way”
 Playing as a philosophy of living

“Do what you do as if you were playing, because it is

the most paramountly way of learning”