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Nomvula Buthelezi

Innovation & Project Co-ordinator, Rand Merchant Bank

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When adults PLAY greatness is born...

Tim Brown stresses that with adults playing together there has to be TRUST, all things being safe, equal and without judgement... Creative, playful and trusting adults should without any inhibition come up with the most innovative solutions...

If we took away our "THINKING DEEPLY" hat and just trust that there are many solutions without there necessarily being a problem we'd be OPEN to endless possibilities, to ENGAGE>>> EXPERIMENT >>>EXPLORE

We're all exploring the PURSUIT of GREATNESS and we will get there by fueling change, building ideas and turning EVOLUTION >>> REVOLUTION >>> INNOVATION

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    Feyisayo Anjorin 50+

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    Jul 18 2012: Somewhere along the line adults forget how to play. So much is clouded by unhealthy competition, intruige, power-play and politics of bitterness.

    Trust and unity of purpose are essentials towards the building of greatness. But how far can we go with human failings like greed and selfishness?

    However, it is better to try and fail, than not to try at all.
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    Maximilian Thomas

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    Jul 13 2012: Your first paragraph says it all, Trust. If we as people believe that we can suggest a new idea or innovation without any negativety attatched to it we would. The problem is we fear being outcasted. We fear that by thinking differently than the group we associate ourselves with we will no longer be a part of that group. Now of course every idea is going to have some critism to it, heck the majoirty of ideas will never work.

    So, of course, when adults can put aside the fear of being outcasted and make connection that the group normally would never make, greatness is born.

  • Dan Geurin 10+

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    Jun 29 2012: Play is what allows us to escape the rigid parameters that track our thoughts and ideas to fit within those parameters.
    All great ideas are born from a freedom to see possibilities that presently don't exist. This freedom is expressed through play. Play at all ages is as essential to the human experience as music or the arts.
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      Jonas Hjalmar Blom

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      Jul 1 2012: I'm trying to approach this topic from both an anthropological and psychological view. And I come to the conclusion, like many of us who have seen Tim Brown's speech among others, that playfulness is essential to humans. In all times, we have playing, and in all times, we have gained benefits from it.

      Tim Brown mentions that to be able to play, we need to feel trust. And I think that it goes in the opposite direction as well, to be able to trust, we need to play. We need to remind ourselves that us and the world is important in many aspects, and irrelevant in others.
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    Robert Winner 50+

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    Jun 21 2012: That is what think tanks do. Forget about the academic laws and beat the subject up in all direction and pursue any leads to the end.

    I had a great time and felt good about being there. To many people take themselve way to serious. "They" are not the answer as they would think. We are all little cogs in the great machine with something to contribute.

    All the best. Bob.
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