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Playfulness means being able to explore and to do things, for the sheer delight of doing them. It means relaxing, being spontaneous, and allowing a situation to carry you where it will. When we have a playful attitude, learning and discovery are fun, and even hard work can fly by.


Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that playfulness actually accomplishes things! When children play, they become smarter because new neuron connections are formed in their brains. Play has been described as the work of childhood, the place where the greatest learning occurs. Great scientists and spiritual leaders often are similarly playful.


Playfulness reduces stress, and brightens the atmosphere. It engages people to do things that make them more connected with other people. It makes people happy.

Playfulness

Photo: G. Schouten De Jel, Netherlands

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Joyfulness - Playfulness - Serenity
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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Cheerfulness - Humor - Joyfulness - Playfulness
Don't ever let your mind keep you from having a good time.

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Gratitude Cafe Tour 2009
Contribution #3660


Humor - Playfulness
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem; dulce est desipere in loco.)

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Cheerfulness - Humor - Playfulness
You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.

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Adaptability - Fairness - Playfulness - Citizenship - Common Sense - Universal Ethics
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

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Contribution #3131


Playfulness - Wisdom
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

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Humor - Playfulness - Skepticism
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

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Playfulness
Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs. We must become more self-conscious and more explicit in our praise and reinforcement as children use unstructured play materials: “That’s good. You use your own ideas....” “That’s good. You did it your way....” “That’s good. You thought it all out yourself.

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Hymes, Jr., James L.
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #451


Balance - Playfulness
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

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Edward Hoagland
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #450