From the course: Essentialism: Improve Your Work by Focusing on the Essentials (Blinkist Summary)

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Play: A tool for inspiration

Play: A tool for inspiration

From the course: Essentialism: Improve Your Work by Focusing on the Essentials (Blinkist Summary)

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Play: A tool for inspiration

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- [Narrator] Blink number five, get your creative juices flowing by playing. Just don't forget to give yourself time to rest. Unfortunately, we adults tend to make a sharp distinction between work and play, having decided that play is something that is trivial and unproductive. It is there purely for entertainment and doesn't help us to advance our goals. In other words, it's a waste of time. The essentialist, however, recognizes that play is a vital tool for inspiration. If you want to discover what's vital in your life, you can use play to free your mind so that you can approach this subject creatively. Play can serve this purpose because it helps us to develop novel connections between ideas that we would have never otherwise considered. It is an antidote to stress, which is one of the key factors in unproductivity, and it helps us to prioritize and analyze tasks. We see the importance of play reflected in the…

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