Work that feels a bit like play

Play is something I wish everyone could experience more of. Maybe it’s having worked with kids for so many years, or that we musicians are inherently playing for a living, I see opportunities for play everywhere - including in the workspace.

Typically, work is work and play is play. Business and creative live in separate lanes, but creative has something to teach business. Let's find out why and how...

Adults. Need. To Play. Research tells us that playfulness is associated with increased optimism, intrinsic motivation, effective management of challenge and failure, and is linked to cognitive spontaneity, creativity, ingenuity, divergent thinking, and adaptability to change.

That’s a lot of value, so how might we play more at work? Norman Maier’s Two Cord Puzzle shows us how we can be prompted with a solution to a problem without even knowing where it came from. How can play lead to surprising solutions?

I designed a game based on my research around this curiosity. If you’re interested in playing, send me a note.