Attention Grown-ups: If You’re Not Playing, You’re Likely Paying a Big Price. | Cas Holman

Attention Grown-ups: If You’re Not Playing, You’re Likely Paying a Big Price. | Cas Holman

Toy designer and RISD professor Cas Holman shows how rediscovering play can help adults build resilience, spark creativity, and forge deeper connections in an achievement-focused world.


In this revealing conversation about her book "Playful: How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity," Holman shares practical ways to embrace uncertainty through play and explains why putting down our phones might be the first step toward reclaiming our natural capacity for joy.


You can find Cas at: Website | Instagram | Episode Transcript


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