Principle #7: Today's Game is Tomorrow's Reality

“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” -Warren Beatty

A game is actually a transition, a way for us to imagine a future situation. In fact our whole life can be like a game where we constantly strive to achieve more advanced, more efficient, and more comfortable life forms. It's all a matter of creating the right environment for playing. The more we can imagine ourselves as being better through games, the closer we'll all be to actually understanding the game we’re playing here together.?

Through the game we act against our natural limitations, and expand the possibilities and opportunities opening up to us. Both through the innovative approach of the game itself, and also because it is carried out collaboratively, with our combined power.

The game is of a person with her/himself, a person with the environment, a person against all the conditions that are revealed to us in life. Life events are a scale of our aspirations. We establish them through playing, feeling and understanding the situations we go through, and through them we simulate within ourselves our aspirations through playing. We see how to add what needs to be revealed and yet to be discovered to the current state. And in this way we progress every time, with a more correct description of our world, our life.?

The fact that I’m in some current state and want to reach a superior state - this is called being in the game.?

Through the game we bring ourselves to understand that there is no bad state and no good state in a person, but rather it is always a new situation. Because this is the only way to find our direction and come to life correctly every time. Constantly being in the game, constantly changing from situation to situation. The fact that I’m in some current state and want to reach a superior state - this is called being in the game.?

We can never know exactly how things will turn out because our game is almost always based on team play.

When a child plays he/she does not know he is growing up, he does not understand the process. And when it comes to us adults, we supposedly play a bit, and immediately our whole being says it's impossible, and we lose all our power. When in fact it is the same process. We can never know exactly how things will turn out because our game is almost always based on team play. Two people, five or a thousand, who want to succeed in business, who want to succeed in realizing themselves, who want to succeed in general because it is a natural emotion in a person.?

In conclusion, to succeed and thrive in business, or in education, or in culture and in general, it makes no difference which profession, because the principle of the game does not have a specific common denominator but a general one. Through the game we act against our natural limitations, and expand the possibilities and opportunities opening up to us. Both through the innovative approach of the game itself, and also because it is carried out collaboratively, with our combined power.

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More great quotes about the power of playing -?

“Work? It’s just serious play.” - Saul Bass

“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” - Diane Ackerman

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” - Charles Schaefer

“Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” - Plato

“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.” - Gottfried Benn

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.” - Brian Sutton-Smith

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” - O. Fred Donaldson

“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” - Kay Redfield Jamison

“Play is training for the unexpected.” - Marc Bekoff

“There is for many a poverty of play.” - D.W. Winnicott

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” - Kay Redfield Jamison

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” - Carl Jung

“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.” –? Abraham Maslow

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” - Voltaire

“People tend to forget that play is serious.” David Hockney

(Credit: Quotes from from 1huddle.co)

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10 Principles: How to Develop Trust and Succeed in Organizations from Now On

Principle #1: the understanding that we are interdependent.

Principle #2: human relationships are our top priority

Principle #3: don’t lie - speak openly and pleasantly

Principle #4: focus on the future and the present - not the past

Principle #5: turn over a new leaf every moment

Principle #6: Consideration and Compromise