What is the link between creativity and play?

I've written about this before but don't want to go look it up - in fact the key discussion for me was probably between JLNobody and myself on the old abuzz forum. I might define "play" as a little different than present common assumptions, seeing exploration as almost an equation with play..

but, anyway, to me it's a key part of art and design and the prime reason I'm interested in art and design process. I changed my life towards art and design while I was still working in medical labs because of the satisfaction of the play component. I'll grant some med research involves play, but I wasn't personally in that stratosphere, though my bosses were.

Of course I also often like the visual or aural results of my and others' "play", so the process and the results work as a pair to me... well, they work as a pair whether or not I think the results are great at the time.

You should ask THIS Ted.



He's the ebodiment of the two.

In 1997 a lone bottlenose dolphin was observed generating bubbles to drive fish to the surface so it could more easily catch them. Prior to this there were only three sea mammal species that were known to use this hunting technique. Dolphins are well known for their playful nature and a common form of play is bubble rings, which they create for themselves through their blowholes. The lone bottlenose dolphin was demonstrating its creative abilities by adapting its bubble play behaviours to create a novel hunting solution.

The act of play has been observed and researched extensively across a wide range of animals – including humans. Research suggests that playfulness is an important developer of creative ability.

Researchers in the UK recently conducted a survey, which investigated how people think about themselves. The people who characterised themselves as playful also thought of themselves as creative, and this self-assessment was validated with a creativity test. Those who thought of themselves as playful performed significantly better compared to those who thought of themselves as less playful.

From a psychology perspective, play is generally categorised as non-serious activities that have no obvious application. You know if you are being playful if you’re having fun, acting spontaneously, in a positive mood and are intrinsically motivated – so you are not relying on a result or a reward.

Play will bring you into contact with a range of different experiences that can be relevant to solving a problem with a novel solution at a later time – just like the bottlenose dolphin. Playfulness also creates conditions where you are free to experience situations beyond what you normally would in everyday life.

Us adults typically play less than children, so if you want to increase your playfulness to support your creative abilities, here are some suggestions:

If you have kids – play more with them! It could be anything from a rough-and-tumble to an imaginary game that engages your playfulness.
Find time to have a joke with your colleagues – we often get caught up on pressing deadlines and forget to have fun.
Get on top of your bad moods and stress as these aspects limit the oppotunity for playfulness to spontaneously occur.

Your avatar is so cool..

Lets talk about inventions and their alternative usages. In terms of what it is used for and why it functions the way it does. Fishes have a slime-coating to protect them from stuff in the water, however they do not need water to breath. They need water to keep their bodies moist. Without water they would dry up in time ( dehydrate like a person who is unable to sweat ), and cease to function.

Cars = transport people = causes people to die
Makeup = covers up blemishes = women compete with young girls = alternative beauty = clowns ( note makeup for years have been linked with cancerous products as with the makeup from the Romantic Period which literally burned peoples faces ).
TV = information = marketing = expose to blue light = causes health problems = keeps a person in one spot.

Trauma is a fish that has been told to walk on land when it really belongs in water. It is a bird being told it is wrong to fly and if you fly we are going to put you in a box. Telling a bear "you do not belong here" when it's cubs are hiding behind a rock behind and from you.

It just means that people might have great ideas but might not have the tools, means, income, people, or facilities in order to act out those ideas.

The invention of the car. While their was many inventors one actually did it.
How? He had

Time
Health
Investors
People
Facility
Tools

Old example if he was inside of a communist country ( by post civil-rights standards ), he would have had no rights.

1. He would be told to peel potatoes in a line.
2. His family would be subjects/subjugated of the state.
3. He

In a normal setting that is how women are meant to be. Inside her hen house, her window in the red-light district, behind a wall, starlet being held captive like a princess in a fairy tale ( or Dubai ) or in a Birka, out of the sun. Of reading "A Room of One's Own" - Virginia Woolf, which dictates that if one was to have her own area of privacy that is hers and hers alone. She could accomplish much. Like for me in my life having that late only allows me some peace in comparison to many people who come from houses ( normal living situations with a yard ) and then moves into a "hole-in-the-wall" called an apartment just for their own privacy away from their parents. Even to an extent of raising children inside such dwellings.

Again for a man the answer is no. Not because of the idea of "him" doing all the work but the reality that many are forced to because of the harsh conditions. However we are led to

Debt
bills
Generating income mindlessly not even being to think.
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The link between creativity and play is that human beings are meant for happiness but in order to achieve simpler methods of living through academics/education/training/practice/work.

At some point somebody might have an idea. The question is that "do they or will they act upon it" and how.

If we had communism during the invention of the automobile we would never have the automobile in the first place.

THINK/CALC/PLAN
ACT
FUNDS
TIME

The automobile was made via funds because somebody donated to this person who had more TIME to THINK rather then spend time being employed.

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That being said most people are kept busy always asking themselves "what if" or other questions because they are grid lock into WORK, SCHOOL, FAMILY, SHELTER/FOOD/CLOTHING/HEALTH = Cost of living, or some other means of distraction.

Therefore they are under STRESS = DEATH = FEAR. Most people are unable get out of or even under or comprehend that LOOP at all, unless they have been presented with the problem and situation.

Like "Thus spoke Zarathustra" He went up the mountain attain the identity of superman but when he came down the mountain all the people despised him no matter what he said or did. The ones who despised him the most were the ones who knew what he was talking about and what he meant and they would even try to out him for attempting to passing this information along to the people. Like the "Midget"/Gypsie/Hollywood Jester "man" in the town square.

Back on the topic of communism we got the creation of "Tetris" ( the game/videogame ) all because it was a side project from somebody who was confined to doing "good work" ( what being able to program and use a computer at the time was ) that was being contracted for the Russian government at the time. So many people loved and played Tetris yet the only copies since made that gained any attention was the N64 and some later versions. Every other versions never made the creator of Tetris any real money at all, but it is wedged in so many peoples minds. Same with "Angry Birds", or even "Flappy Bird" to "Minecraft". A fad?

Again the invention of tetris just shows that "We are given means and through those means we are able to become something or make something". Like a dating-scammer who have sex for money and appear in hollywood movies and hollywood parties and travels all over the place looks like a hero/Role-model /brand ambassador to all of her kin that will follow her.

Another example is the invention ( patient ) of the guidance missile system where signals would hop frequencies preventing the enemy from over taking control over the system is the same system used in cell towers today is an idea from some "dutches" ( fancy woman ) sitting in her long dress and big sun-hat, sipping tea. Not a government hired scientist. All she did was apply ( or had ) the patient made in her name.

Speaking of women again you had room full of academic scholars who all were women working on astronomy making advancements.

The same could be said about Thomas Edison. Who had the income and leisure to purchased the rights to the light bulb from Two Canadian inventors.
Who has slaves or indentured servants who were of African decent that actually was greatly educated enough to work in his worship making inventions for him all the while he was taking pictures of their children eating watermelon attempting to create "culture"

What about the actual inventors of the bulb that sold the patient?
1. Mathew Evans = Hotel manager
2. Henry Woodward = Medical Student

Apparently they did not have the money because they were both stuck in WORK and SCHOOL.

Stan Meyer the inventor of the water-car was assassinated. He had no college education, and no PHDs and no real big job. He did in an effort to end the 1982 oil crisis. You could use salt-water, rain-water, and possible urine. Basically it would take the water, and go through the process of separating Hydrogen and Oxygen. When Hydrogen is burnt it literally would produce "water" until that process would run out. Their would be no cause of fire or explosion because the hydrogen would be burn immediately upon a push of the pedal.

Aaron Salter Jr., a security guard ( ex-cop ) at the Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo who was killed in the recent mass shooting, had reportedly just patented a new type of vehicle engine that runs on water instead of gasoline.
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That is the "link" between creativity and play.

The truth is that we have been tricked out of actually achieving anything
or doing anything that is worthy. Mindlessly being told to accept being tested from grades K-12 only to then again go to school to "prove" your capable of being trusted to do anything, having this stupidity of WORK and SCHOOL hovering above your head only to keep you occupied in the motion of SLAVERY. Either being limited to a mass murderer fighting a meaningless war to being a baby-maker, or just being used for sex like fake "flesh-tight vibrator meant for guys.
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What is limiting us in modern society ?

For men it is "Escaping the system" and "going off grid"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjDnuc0y1Gc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwk_OiUtxQ

2. RACISM which is what is holding the world back as a whole because men among men needs each other as brother

and finally

3. Women "in chains". The reality is that women are by genetic default are ready to accept living in bondage under another man or any man ( under law ) and are willing to take the most gifted of men and pull him down into the bondage of the world like some kind of mindless meat product being waited to be putted out of somebodies misery.

Reality check if attention given to men/boys alone and all women was literally stock to be traded most of the worlds problems would be corrected. But again
as with

Women with ideas sipping on tea with a parasol.
Scientist who are women in dresses.
Women who have rooms of their own who are able to write without having their husbands looming over them and or the maids, house servant, mid-wife tending the children and possible the husband.

Just having the ability to project these visions, studies, is also promoting the world itself. Yet the majority of these women are hyper traditionalist or of hyper traditionalist households. Where they enjoy being subservient to men and not "out of line" or "spinster" or "have any attitude"

Their is no actual creativity with women where traditionalism is abandon and the same could be said for men of their nature. Your not going to find any household where the whole family is antagonizing against the young or old master of the house.

Thus we have the "Great Divide" or "Divide and conquer" mentality. You can not make a fist with your hands all open, and you can not have a network or spiritual net if nobody is unable to listen.

With all these divisions comes the increase amounts of stress that should not be there.

Therefore there can not be "creativity and play".

Meaning we are limiting peoples ability to function as "what is human" by creating more barriers upon barriers of stupidity

Creating luxuries and excess out of what is normal.
Turning normality into what is illegal.
Meaning limiting the number of people actually able to be creative or play.
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If we had all the crappy laws, acts, fines, convicts, that creates even more reason for convictions, acts, fines, crap laws that creates more problems.
We have a prison with invisible walls, only divided by oceans of water.

When your told to sit like a dog and stare at a display looking at people sin all day and then be told to accept death but not before that run on a hamster wheel and reproduce more robots and then accept death.

The link is that your given the opportunity ( your allowed ) or your "Take risks" in order to accomplish a specific goal.