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This struck me the most as well. As a drama teacher , if a propose a session of play just for play or dare i say it “Fun”.. its met with hesitation and even confusion and fear.. like as if I have suggested to someone from the 1800’s that women should get to vote. How would one convince or make an argument for playing for playing’s sake.

That was the thing that most struck me about this. It’s so true and yet so many people try to subvert this when doing ‘creative’ work. I remember, some years ago being asked by my then boss, who was heavily into Lean and Six-Sigma if I could put together some documentation of the creative process so that we could reliably replicate it every time it was needed and so speed up our creation of learning games to a week or less

Particularly, “Play needs space without the pressure of the end goal”, and the ideas about the creativity this brings.

This makes me think of the Candle Problem, which Dan Pink talks about in his TED talk on motivation. When the pressure of reward is applied harder, creativity (and success) drops.