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| Posted: 21 May 2009 08:30 PM PDT I have just watched Suart Brown's TED talk: Why Play is Vital - No Matter Your Age. Play. When did we get so serious? We're even serious about humor. Somehow somewhere we seemed to get the idea that to be serious, we have to be solemn. Maybe it's best to just throw stuff out there and hope something sticks, or more accurately, someone laughs. Sometimes things work, and sometimes things don't. I performed with a man for several years who wrote some wonderful material. But hoarded it as if he would never write anything good again. Anytime I thought something was too good to let go, I locked up, kind of creative constipation. But when I let it all go, new stuff always filled in the space. This is not new. It's sort of a comic version of what televangelists call, The Prosperity Gospel, or some motivational speakers call the principle of vacuum.Zen yogis caution us that if we are already full of crap, there is no room for anything else, no room for anything new. If you are busy finding places to use what you already know, you are not looking for new things to learn. Funny surrounds us. In Focus On The Escape we talked about locking in on something to the exclusion of everything else. The only barriers are self created ones. There is always another story, always another joke, always another stupid frat guy who not only does something stupid, but films it and puts it up on YouTube for the world to see. The only way to find out if something is funny is to put it out there. If you are one of those rare individuals who has such a highly refined sense of humor that only three people on the planet share your insights, as long as they are not bedouins who live in a tent, or pygmies who live in the jungle of New Guinea, you will find each other and laugh. So play. It's OK. If it works, it works, if it doesn't…. try something else. And if your company or group has forgotten how to play, bring me in for your next meeting or event! (I've got kids in college, and an expensive wife, I need the money!) Meanwhile, play around with comments, and with the subscribe buttons. Related posts
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