Elise Hugh
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5,055 appearances
332 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard yesterday
Elise Hugh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When someone hands me a set of rules, guidelines, constraints, or a fine print, my instinct is that they're gonna get in the way of doing something creative.
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Eric Zimmerman would tell me I have it backwards.
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He's a game designer, and he has spent his career in the strange generative space where rigid rules meet total spontaneity.
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Eric designs video games, tabletop games, museum installations, and teaches game design at NYU.
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And in his talk, he makes the case that the constraints we resent are the very thing that makes creativity possible.
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Once you learn to play with a system rather than just follow it, you can unlock something joyful and surprising.
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joy.
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And for Eric, it's about more than just fun and games.
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He shows how this same playful mindset can reshape a dinner party, a building, even the way a democracy works.
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That's coming up right after a short break.
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now our TED Talk of the Day.
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And that was Eric Zimmerman at play at Ted in twenty twenty six.
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If you're curious about Ted's curation, visit TED.com/slash curation guidelines.
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And that's it for today.
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TED Talks Daily is a podcast from TED.
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This episode was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team.
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Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Lucy Little, Emma Tobbner, and Tonsika Sungarnival.
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Additional support from Daniela Ballarazzo, Christopher Fazy Bogan, Valentina Bojanini, Banban Chang, Brian Green, and Lainey Lott.
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Learn more at podcasts.com.
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I am Elise Hugh.
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