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Cas Holman

πŸ‘€ Speaker
772 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Definitely.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Exactly.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

But it's also that we undervalue the benefit.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

That whole workplace was better off because of you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

So say that you actually, we're going to shift it slightly.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Say that you washed one-tenth fewer cars every day.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

And we valued efficiency and productivity over joy and cohesion of team.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

And probably the clients would like to come there because you all don't look miserable doing a service, performing a service.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

If we understand that playfulness and social skills are in fact a value that could be prioritized and compensated for, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Because I mean, we see this also in all kinds of offices where the jobs that are like, oh, you just make everybody feel good, but I actually crunch the numbers.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

And it's like, so why do you get paid more than I do?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Because we're both critical to this working.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

So there's an undervalue of kind of social, forget about it if it's somebody who deals with emotions, then we're really...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Or teachers.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

But there's an undervaluing of those as skills that people are often built for and also that they learn and it's a muscle that we exercise as well.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

So I think in that case, like it's a really great example of that the playfulness made everything better.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

It just wasn't a priority.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

For people reading the book or people saying that I want to be more playful, just prioritizing play and letting yourself play.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Cas Holman (on being playful)

And then, of course, if you're so far removed from it, you may need to do some work to find your play.