Steve Keil: A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond

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I'm here today
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to start a revolution.
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Now before you get up in arms,
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or you break into song,
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or you pick a favorite color,
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I want to define what I mean by revolution.
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By revolution,
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I mean a drastic and far-reaching change
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in the way we think and behave --
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the way we think and the way we behave.
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Now why, Steve, why do we need a revolution?
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We need a revolution
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because things aren't working; they're just not working.
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And that makes me really sad
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because I'm sick and tired of things not working.
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You know, I'm sick and tired of us not living up to our potential.
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I'm sick and tired of us being last.
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And we are last place in so many things --
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for example, social factors.
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We're last place in Europe in innovation.
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There we are right at the end, right at the bottom,
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last place as a culture that doesn't value innovation.
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We're last place in health care,
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and that's important for a sense of well-being.
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And there we are, not just last in the E.U.,
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we're last in Europe, at the very bottom.
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And worst of all,
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it just came out three weeks ago, many of you have seen it, The Economist.
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We're the saddest place on Earth,
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relative to GDP per capita --
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the saddest place on Earth.
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That's social. Let's look at education.
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Where do we rank three weeks ago
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in another report by the OECD?
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Last in reading, math and science. Last.
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Business:
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The lowest perception in the E.U.
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that entrepreneurs provide benefits to society.
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Why as a result, what happens?
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The lowest percentage of entrepreneurs starting businesses.
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And this is despite the fact
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that everybody knows that small business
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is the engine of economies.
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We hire the most people; we create the most taxes.
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So if our engine's broken, guess what?
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Last in Europe GDP per capita.
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Last.
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So it's no surprise, guys, that 62 percent of Bulgarians
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are not optimistic about the future.
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We're unhappy, we have bad education,
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and we have the worst businesses.
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And these are facts, guys.
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This isn't story tale; it's not make-believe.
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It's not.
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It's not a conspiracy I have got against Bulgaria. These are facts.
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So I think it should be really, really clear
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that our system is broken.
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The way we think, the way we behave,
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our operating system of behaving is broken.
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We need a drastic change in the way we think and behave
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to transform Bulgaria for the better,
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for ourselves, for our friends,
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for our family and for our future.
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How did this happen?
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Let's be positive now. We're going to get positive. How did this happen?
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I think we're last because --
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and this is going to be drastic to some of you --
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because we are handicapping ourselves.
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We're holding ourselves back
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because we don't value play.
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I said "play," all right.
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In case some of you forgot what play is, this is what play looks like.
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Babies play, kids play,
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adults play.
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We don't value play.
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In fact, we devalue play.
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And we devalue it in three areas.
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Let's go back to the same three areas.
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Social: 45 years of what?
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Of communism --
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of valuing the society and the state over the individual
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and squashing, inadvertently,
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creativity, individual self-expression and innovation.
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And instead, what do we value?
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Because it's shown
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the way we apply, generate and use knowledge
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is affected by our social and institutional context,
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which told us what in communism?
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To be serious.
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To be really, really serious.
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It did.
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(Applause)
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Be serious.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been scolded in the park
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for letting my kids play on the ground.
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Heaven forbid they play in the dirt, the kal,
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or even worse, lokvi, water -- that will kill them.
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I have been told by babas and dyados
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that we shouldn't let our kids play so much
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because life is serious
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and we need to train them for the seriousness of life.
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We have a serious meme running through.
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It's a social gene running through us.
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It's a serious gene.
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It's 45 years of it
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that's created what I call the "baba factor."
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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And here's how it works.
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Step one: woman says, "I want to have a baby. Iskam baby."
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Step two: we get the baby. Woohoo!
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But then what happens in step three?
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I want to go back to work
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because I need to further my career or I just want to go have coffees.
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I'm going to give bebko to baba.
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But we need to remember
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that baba's been infected by the serious meme for 45 years.
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So what happens?
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She passes that virus on to baby,
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and it takes a really, really, really long time -- as the redwood trees --
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for that serious meme
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to get out of our operating system.
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What happens then?
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It goes into education where we have an antiquated education system
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that has little changed for 100 years,
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that values rote learning,
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memorization and standardization,
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and devalues self-expression, self-exploration,
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questioning, creativity and play.
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It's a crap system.
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True story: I went looking for a school for my kid.
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We went to this prestigious little school
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and they say they're going to study math 10 times a week
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and science eight times a week
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and reading five times a day and all this stuff.
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And we said, "Well what about play and recess?"
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And they said, "Ha. There won't be a single moment in the schedule."
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(Laughter)
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And we said, "He's five."
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What a crime. What a crime.
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And it's a crime
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that our education system is so serious because education is serious
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that we're creating mindless, robotic workers
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to put bolts in pre-drilled holes.
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But I'm sorry, the problems of today
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are not the problems of the Industrial Revolution.
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We need adaptability,
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the ability to learn how to be creative and innovative.
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We don't need mechanized workers.
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But no, now our meme goes into work where we don't value play.
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We create robotic workers that we treat like assets,
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to lever and just throw away.
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What are qualities of a Bulgarian work?
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Autocratic --
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do what I say because I'm the chef.
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I'm the boss and I know better than you.
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Untrusting -- you're obviously a criminal, so I'm going to install cameras.
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(Laughter)
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Controlling --
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you're obviously an idiot, so I'm going to make
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a zillion little processes for you to follow so you don't step out of the box.
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So they're restrictive -- don't use your mobile phone,
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don't use your laptop, don't search the Internet,
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don't be on I.M.
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That's somehow unprofessional and bad.
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And at the end of the day, it's unfulfilling
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because you're controlled, you're restricted, you're not valued
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and you're not having any fun.
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In social, in education and in our business,
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don't value play.
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And that's why we're last,
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because we don't value play.
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And you can say, "That's ridiculous, Steve. What a dumb idea.
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It can't be because of play.
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Just play, that's a stupid thing."
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We have the serious meme in us.
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Well I'm going to say no.
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And I will prove it to you in the next part of the speech --
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that play is the catalyst, it is the revolution,
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that we can use to transform Bulgaria for the better.
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Play:
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our brains
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are hardwired for play.
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Evolution has selected,
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over millions and billions of years,
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for play in animals and in humans.
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And you know what?
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Evolution does a really, really good job
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of deselecting traits that aren't advantageous to us
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and selecting traits for competitive advantage.
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Nature isn't stupid, and it selected for play.
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Throughout the animal kingdom, for example:
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ants. Ants play.
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Maybe you didn't know that.
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But when they're playing,
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they're learning the social order and dynamics of things.
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Rats play, but what you might not have known
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is that rats that play more
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have bigger brains
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and they learn tasks better,
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skills.
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Kittens play. We all know kittens play.
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But what you may not know
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is that kittens deprived of play
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are unable to interact socially.
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They can still hunt, but they can't be social.
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Bears play.
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But what you may not know
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is that bears that play more survive longer.
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It's not the bears that learn how to fish better.
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It's the ones that play more.
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And a final really interesting study --
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it's been shown, a correlation
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between play and brain size.
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The more you play, the bigger the brains there are.
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Dolphins, pretty big brains, play a lot.
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But who do you think
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with the biggest brains are the biggest players?
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Yours truly: humans.
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Kids play, we play --
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of every nationality, of every race,
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of every color, of every religion.
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It's a universal thing -- we play.
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And it's not just kids, it's adults too.
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Really cool term: neoteny --
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the retention of play and juvenile traits in adults.
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And who are the biggest neotenists?
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Humans. We play sports.
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We do it for fun, or as Olympians, or as professionals.
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We play musical instruments.
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We dance, we kiss, we sing,
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we just goof around.
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We're designed by nature to play
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from birth to old age.
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We're designed to do that continuously --
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to play and play a lot
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and not stop playing.
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It is a huge benefit.
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Just like there's benefits to animals,
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there's benefits to humans.
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For example, it's been shown
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to stimulate neural growth in the amygdala,
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in the area where it controls emotions.
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It's been shown to promote pre-frontal cortex development
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where a lot of cognition is happening.
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As a result, what happens?
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We develop more emotional maturity if we play more.
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We develop better decision-making ability
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if we play more.
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These guys are facts.
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It's not fiction, it's not story tales, it's not make-believe;
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it's cold, hard science.
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These are the benefits to play.
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It is a genetic birthright that we have,
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like walking or speaking or seeing.
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And if we handicap ourselves with play,
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we handicap ourselves
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as if we would with any other birthright that we have.
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We hold ourselves back.
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Little exercise just for a second:
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close your eyes
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and try to imagine a world without play.
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Imagine a world without theater, without the arts,
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without song, without dancing,
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without soccer, without football,
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without laughter.
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What does this world look like?
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It's pretty bleak.
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It's pretty glum.
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Now imagine your workplace.
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Is it fun? Is it playful?
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Or maybe the workplace of your friends -- here we're forward thinking.
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Is it fun? Is it playful?
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Or is it crap? Is it autocratic, controlling,
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restrictive and untrusting and unfulfilling?
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We have this concept
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that the opposite of play is work.
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We even feel guilty if we're seen playing at work.
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"Oh, my colleagues see me laughing. I must not have enough work,"
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or, "Oh, I've got to hide because my boss might see me.
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He's going to think I'm not working hard."
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But I have news for you: our thinking is backwards.
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The opposite of play
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is not work.
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The opposite of play
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is depression. It's depression.
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In fact,
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play improves our work.
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Just like there's benefits for humans and animals,
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there's benefits for play at work.
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For example, it stimulates creativity.
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It increases our openness to change.
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It improves our ability to learn.
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It provides a sense of purpose and mastery --
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two key motivational things
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that increase productivity,
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through play.
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So before you start thinking of play as just not serious,
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play doesn't mean frivolous.
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You know, the professional athlete that loves skiing,
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he's serious about it, but he loves it.
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He's having fun, he's in the groove, he's in the flow.
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A doctor might be serious,
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but laughter's still a great medicine.
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Our thinking is backwards.
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We shouldn't be feeling guilty.
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We should be celebrating play.
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Quick example from the corporate world.
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FedEx, easy motto: people, service, profit.
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If you treat your people like people, if you treat them great,
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they're happier, they're fulfilled, they have a sense of mastery and purpose.
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What happens? They give better service --
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not worse, but better.
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And when customers call for service
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and they're dealing with happy people that can make decisions and are fulfilled,
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how do the customers feel? They feel great.
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And what do great customers do, great-feeling customers?
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They buy more of your service and they tell more of their friends,
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which leads to more profit.
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People, service, profit.
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Play increases productivity, not decreases.
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And you're going to say,
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"Gee, that can work for FedEx out there in the United States,
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but it can't work in Bulgaria.
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No way. We're different."
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It does work in Bulgaria, you guys. Two reasons.
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One, play is universal.
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There's nothing weird about Bulgarians that we can't play,
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besides the serious meme that we have to kick out.
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Two, I've tried it. I've tried at Sciant.
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When I got there, we had zero happy customers.
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Not one customer would refer us.
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I asked them all.
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We had marginal profit -- I did.
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We had marginal profits,
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and we had unhappy stakeholders.
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Through some basic change,
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change like improving transparency,
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change like promoting self-direction
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and collaboration, encouraging collaboration,
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not autocracy,
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the things like having a results-focus.
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I don't care when you get in in the morning. I don't care when you leave.
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I care that your customer and your team is happy
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and you're organized with that.
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Why do I care if you get in at nine o'clock?
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Basically promoting fun.
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Through promoting fun and a great environment,
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we were able to transform Sciant
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and, in just three short years --
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sounds like a long time, but change is slow --
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every customer, from zero to every customer referring us,
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above average profits for the industry
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and happy stakeholders.
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And you can say, "Well how do you know they're happy?"
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Well we did win, every year that we entered,
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one of the rankings for best employer for small business.
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Independent analysis from anonymous employees
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on their surveys.
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It does, and it can, work in Bulgaria.
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There's nothing holding us back,
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except our own mentality about play.
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So some steps that we can take -- to finish up --
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how to make this revolution through play.
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First of all, you have to believe me.
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If you don't believe me,
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well just go home and think about it some more or something.
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Second of all, if you don't have the feeling of play in you,
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you need to rediscover play.
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Whatever it was that as a kid you used to enjoy,
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that you enjoyed only six months ago,
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but now that you've got that promotion you can't enjoy,
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because you feel like you have to be serious,
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rediscover it.
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I don't care if it's mountain biking or reading a book or playing a game.
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Rediscover that
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because you're the leaders,
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the innovation leaders, the thought leaders.
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You're the ones that have to go back to the office
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or talk to your friends
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and ignite the fire of change in the play revolution.
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You guys have to, and if you're not feeling it,
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your colleagues, your employees, aren't going to feel it.
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You've got to go back and say, "Hey, I'm going to trust you."
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Weird concept: I hired you; I should trust you.
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I'm going to let you make decisions. I'm going to empower you,
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and I'm going to delegate to the lowest level, rather than the top.
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I'm going to encourage constructive criticism.
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I'm going to let you challenge authority.
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Because it's by challenging the way things are always done
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is that we are able to break out of the rut that we're in
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and create innovative solutions
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to problems of today.
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We're not always right as leaders.
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We're going to eradicate fear.
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Fear is the enemy of play.
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And we're going to do things
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like eliminate restrictions.
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You know what, let them use their mobile phone
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for personal calls -- heaven forbid.
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Let them be on the Internet.
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Let them be on instant messengers.
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Let them take long lunches.
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Lunch is like the recess for work.
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It's when you go out in the world
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and you recharge your brain, you meet your friends,
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you have a beer, you have some food, you talk,
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you get some synergy of ideas
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that maybe you wouldn't have had before.
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Let them do it. Give them some freedom,
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and in general, let them play. Let them have fun at the workplace.
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We spend so much of our lives at the workplace,
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and it's supposed to be, what, a miserable grind,
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so that 20 years from now, we wake up and say, "Is this it?
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Is that all there was?"
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Unacceptable. Nepriemliv.
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(Laughter)
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So in summary,
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we need a drastic change
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in the way we think and behave,
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but we don't need
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a workers' revolution.
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We don't need a workers' revolution.
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What we need
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is a players' uprising.
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What we need is a players' uprising.
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What we need is a players' uprising.
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Seriously, we need to band together.
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Today is the start of the uprising.
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But what you need to do
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is fan the flames of the revolution.
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You need to go and share your ideas and your success stories
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of what worked
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about reinvigorating our lives, our schools,
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and our work with play;
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about how play promotes
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a sense of promise and self-fulfillment;
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of how play promotes innovation and productivity,
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and, ultimately, how play creates meaning.
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Because we can't do it alone. We have to do it together,
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and together, if we do this and share these ideas on play,
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we can transform Bulgaria for the better.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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