Cas Holman

And then there have been studies that used college students instead of rats.

Right.

Basically the same thing.

A little bit less extreme and not studying the neocortex development in these cases, thankfully.

But similarly, college students, there was one study by Alice Eisen who put students in a room for five minutes with nothing.

You're just going to sit in the desk for five minutes.

And then in the meantime, another group of students had music and another group of students had music and puzzles.

And so those three groups went in and they all did the exact same test in the same way.

And the group with nothing did 15% less well than the group that had music.

Group with music universally did 15% more problem solving.

And then the group that had music and toys did like 40% better than all of the groups.

These numbers are going to be absolutely wrong.

They're placeholders.

And it's in the book.

And once I write it down, I'm like, good, now it's there.

I can forget it forever.

Yes.

But this is just to say universally, just playing with a toy before you go in to solve a problem made you a better problem solver.

Yeah, interesting.

So there's just time and time again, we learn ways that play not just helps us have the will to live, but it helps us be more resilient and healthier.