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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How has the first week of the Play experiment gone? Brooke and Ben discuss the hits and misses.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

0:03.1

This is episode number 117, and we are talking about our November slow home experiment of play.

0:12.2

We're playing, we're...

0:15.0

Frolicking.

0:17.0

Being spontaneous.

0:20.0

We had to script that.

0:42.6

We... We are.

0:45.6

So last week we spoke about play.

0:46.3

It hadn't started.

0:50.1

It was the day after we recorded that play was going to begin.

1:00.3

But what did we define it as? Was random acts of silliness yeah like non-task oriented play so it doesn't first things first this is not just for people who have children i've had

1:05.6

quite a few people kind of say oh yeah but i don't have kids totally you're totally allowed to

1:10.7

play regardless.

1:12.3

And most of what I've done this week hasn't actually centered on the kids specifically,

1:17.8

but more so just like a playfulness in the way that I'm approaching everything.

1:21.8

So definitely not something just for people with families, open for everyone.

1:27.3

Yeah, like, and that's the thing.

1:29.2

You can play with yourself.

1:31.5

You can play with your pet.

1:34.4

You know, it's anything, and it's available for anyone.

1:38.5

Absolutely.

1:38.9

It's just a mindset thing.

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