Ben Crowe
speaker
453 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Ben Crowe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the opposite of play is fear.
Most people think the opposite of play is work, but it's not.
It's fear.
And as humans, we're designed by nature to play, right?
Like it's pre-verbal.
Before we learn how to speak, we're in this kind of playful nature.
And there are a few other species that are the same as Homo sapiens.
But today, we've become play-deprived, which is a bit like being sleep-deprived.
When you're sleep-deprived, you're cranky and frustrated.
Well, it's the same when you're play-deprived.
There's this incredible study in the US where they studied the most hardened criminals in the criminal system to see what they had in common.
And the number one ingredient they had in common was that when they were kids, they were play-deprived.
And I've been working in sport for over 30 years and I've never seen a dynamic right now.
The amount of athletes whose job description is to play, but they're not in the play state.
They're in the fear state.
Caught up with emotional pressure or outcome pressure.
And play is also the number one ingredient why anyone in the world goes to work.
This study has been going for over 100 years and I think it was the 1980s, the University of Rochester and then Harvard, Stanford, and they were able to codify the top six reasons why anyone in the world goes to work.
And what I find so fascinating about this study is the number one motivation is play.
Now, play is not table tennis.
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