“When you lower the stakes and design conditions for safety and play, literally anything can thrive. Curiosity could be a seed, but then it becomes a lot more expansive and a lot more open.” ~ Lakshmi
What do you think of when you think of “kindergarten”? What about the prospect of being a life-long kindergartner?
Join me and Lakshmi as we lean into what makes that mindset so rich and why returning to those roots is both wise and wonderful.
Some of these experiments help you collect nuggets about who you are and who you are becoming.
We talk about letting go of our rigidity and embracing life as an aspiring kindergartner, designing for serendipity, safety and the power in just assuming we’re going to have fun, the marvelous entwining of friendship and play, turning everything into a playground, crafting imaginary mocktails and what comes from playful revelation, curiosity as a leading indicator of relationship health — and how playing with analogy and metaphor expands our definition of curiosity…(and maybe anything!)
Listen to Ep. 336: Curiosity & Life-Long Kindergarten, with Lakshmi
Lakshmi is co-founder of NoomaLooma, an app that offers bite-sized creative practices for busy lives. I noticed her noticing, and a friendship was born. It’s really that easy.
If you liked the focus on playful exploration, you might enjoy these C2BC Classics: Late Bloomer Living: Curiosity & Play, with Yvonne Marchese; A Creative Quester’s Guide to Curiosity, with Sam Furness; Just Looking, with Menka Sanghvi; & How to Be a Color Wizard, with Jason Logan.
Theme music by Sean Balick; “Zig Zag Heart” by Nursery, via Blue Dot Sessions.
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