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Tonight's the school dance.

Okay, so then you're going to think about what kind of play that is.

What's at the center of it?

One framework that can help you is called play personalities.

Stuart Brown lays these out in his book.

In his decades as a psychiatrist, he would ask patients about their early experiences with play.

He and his colleagues would review the notes, and they noticed some archetypes.

Here are a few examples, and you can be more than one of these.

There's the joker, who loves to laugh and make other people laugh, whether that's through practical jokes, wordplay, physical comedy.

There's the artist-creator.

The point for this person is to make something.

Could be something beautiful, something functional, something goofy.

As Barbie's personal stylist, my inner child definitely fell into this category.

You've got the kinesthete, who finds joy in movement.

You know, swimming, running, stretching.

You've got the director.

They love to call the shots to plan the parties.

Also, the storyteller.

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