Ben Crowe
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453 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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The most incredible freedom to, you know, compete, have fun and play.
And in the book, I talk about the three types of play that organizations can, and the simplest one is curiosity play.
Just simply making questions celebrated rather than berated.
Like it's political suicide for me to ask a question if I'm not allowed to.
Yeah.
But if you make curiosity in asking questions, it's the most, and I tell the story when Nike was signing Michael Jordan, you know, every basketball shoe in the world was white.
And Michael and Nike wanted to create a black and red one, but they weren't allowed to because the NBA would ban them and, you know, fine him $5,000.
Until one of the young designers in the room said, well, what if we did it anyway?
Like, what if we put more black and red in the shoe?
And what if we paid the fines?
And what if we made a television commercial, right?
And then within six months, it became one of the biggest shoes in history, right?
Not the number one basketball shoe, but the number one shoe in the world.
And so that's an example of curiosity play.
Um, spontaneity play is my favorite where you just notice more things and everything's on offer, a bit like improv acting.
And you notice yourself saying, hmm, isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting?
Kind of pattern recognition wise.
And in the book, I tell the story when, you know, when Boris Becker started playing on the tour, he was, you know, pretty much unbeatable with his serve.
It was, you know, boom, boom, Becker, right?
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