Play, Spirit, + Character

I just caught an episdoe of the NPR radio show Speaking of Faith. It was a rebroadcast of a show they had done at least a year earlier. It was enthralling.

» Play, Spirit, + Character [mp3]

Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life’s complication. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play, and draws on a rich universe of study of intelligent social animals.