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For the Fun of It: Or, the Play in Great Work
Podcast

For the Fun of It: Or, the Play in Great Work

Wonderland podcast


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Editorial Rating

6

Qualities

  • Eye Opening

Recommendation

If you’ve always found school stultifying, this entry in the Wonderland podcast from author Steven Johnson will vindicate you. Johnson hosts two guests affiliated with the MIT Media Lab: director Joi Ito and her associate Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao. Together, they discuss the benefits of creative thinking, why it will become even more important in the future and how you can enhance it at your company. The podcast could provide more concrete and actionable examples of how to promote learning through playing, pursuing passions and interacting with a group. Nonetheless, those hoping to drive innovation and out-of-the-box problem solving will benefit from listening to the podcast.

Take-Aways

  • Humans learn best from peer interaction, activities and free play. 
  • Traditional instruction methods like lectures, textbooks and testing aren’t the most effective ways of learning. 
  • Stressors like deadlines, metrics, competition and reward-based systems promote linear, rather than creative, solutions. 

About the Podcast

The Wonderland podcast features conversations about creativity and innovation. In this episode, host and best-selling author Steven Johnson interviews MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, and engineer and artist Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao presents a Media Lab invention.