Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 25th, 2008
Cheap Laughs
Laughter and jokes and play are undervalued in our serious adult world.
We think of all of these as entertainment, just a way to escape the stress and burdens of a threatening world which weighs us down.
Do you ever feel like you’re carrying more than you can bear?
Laughter picks up those burdens, and [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth, Reviews on Mar 31st, 2008
Leading a Double Life
Imagine that there is a door in your apartment or house.
Each day you step through that door and visit a distant and strange world for a few hours.
In that world you have a different name and face and body.
You live, work, earn money, face challenges, create, succeed, and grow – every [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Influence & Marketing on Mar 24th, 2008
The Free Exchange of Ideas vs. Censorship
Do you feel angry or even afraid when you hear that the government or other organizations are trying to control the content of your entertainment and your information?
There are laws and regulations that control the content of television, movies, video games, and to a lesser extent, the Internet. [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Dec 16th, 2007
Babies and Power
I remember when my oldest child was born.
She was, and is, like all children, a miracle, but at the moment of her birth she seemed absolutely helpless.
She had this eternally wise expression on her face (ok, she is a bit of a genius). And, like all other babies, she had no real [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Influence & Marketing on Oct 13th, 2007
Love to Dream, Hate to Dream
This is an age where people are afraid to dream.
You don’t believe me.
We have too many cable channels to count.
We have movies with incredible special effects, computer games that grow more elaborate all the time, and multiplayer games and virtual worlds on the internet.
And we have an unending supply of [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Sep 16th, 2007
Childhood’s End?
“Stop fooling around!”
Did you ever hear that from a parent or a teacher?
Maybe you ignored it and got into trouble.
Or, more likely, you eventually listened, and stopped.
But that wasn’t the end of your desire to play.
You probably still like to play in some way.
Although you probably don’t call it play, except when you play [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 29th, 2007
Addicted to Extremes
Turn up the volume.
That’s our answer to every need.
Why are we addicted to extremes?
Look around.
Our senses are assaulted daily by a mountain of sensations, and our minds are overloaded with information.
And it’s not simply the quantity of sensations, or the speed with which we encounter them.
They’re competing for our attention.
In the midst of [...]
