When Did You Stop Playing?
When did you stop playing? Not stop having fun — stop playing, the real thing, the open-ended kind a kid does for no payoff at all. The Exponential Individuals Playbook argues that reconnecting with adult play can reorder how you see the world and wake up problem-solving that has been asleep since childhood. We file play under "later." After the work, after the launch, after the kids are grown. So it never comes, and a whole muscle goes slack. The mind that once tried things just to see what would happen now only does what it already knows pays off. Safe. Narrow. Slowly stupider. ...