About the book
Designer and educator Cas Holman calls on adults to bring more fun, exploration and imagination into lives ruled by getting things done. People are born playful, she argues, but learn to suppress the instinct as they grow up, and that disconnection harms emotional wellbeing as well as the ability to solve problems and innovate. Holman makes the case for free play: open-ended, unstructured activity with no obvious goal, which might mean making a piece of art, talking with a stranger or experimenting with a routine task. Drawing on psychology, history, art and design thinking, along with stories and research, she links play to overcoming fear of failure, recovering from stress, growing creativity and finding joy in bleak times.
Adam Grant put it on his list of new books to fight brain rot, saying he would like more free play in the world and that Holman, a designer, knows how to create it.
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Adam Grant (Author)
I want to live in a world with more free play, and this designer knows how to build it.
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