Ben Crowe
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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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One is safe or warm or connected or, you know, belonging.
Yeah.
And the fifth one is loved.
And I was at a conference a few years ago, actually in the UK, I think it was, and the
There's a psychiatrist in the audience and she said, Ben, why do these same five states keep appearing when people do this exercise and find their early play memory states?
And I said, I don't know, it's above my pay grade, right?
But maybe, just maybe at its core, that's who we are in our authentic state.
Before we get pimples as teenagers and we think we've got to fit into a tribe, right?
right?
Before that happens, when you find the memories before the memories, right?
Because in that moment, you didn't have to do anything or prove yourself to anyone, right?
You were playful and absorbed and safe and excited and adventurous.
And we often forget, right?
As we get older, we think that life is serious and we think we have to conform to a certain set of ideals and so forth.
And we lose that authentic playfulness.
What's also incredible is we
whatever we love doing, our play states younger has often formed or informed what we've done later on in life, right?
So, if you were playing with a Lego as a kid, there's a good chance you got into, you know, engineering or architectural design or if you did play dress-ups as doctors or nurses, there's a very good chance you ended up in the service industry and
in some way, shape or form.
So it's incredible that not only our play states, but our play history can often inform what we do later on in life.
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