A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube discussion led by Diana Chapman about using play and curiosity to reduce interpersonal drama—especially in the workplace. Chapman argues that humans learn best through play, that curiosity (an open, playful, toddler-like stance) broadens possibilities, and that eliminating drama requires owning results, stopping blame, and taking 100% responsibility, which increases creativity, connection, and energy.
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Human beings and all mammals learn best through play. And so one of the things I really am advocating is let's play more. Because the more we play, the more we learn, the more we get serious and hard. And this isn't funny.
It just limits.
The possibilities of what we get to do and create and think. It's like I'm right and there's a lot of stuff wrong. I'm not so open even holding my breath closed, physically closed in my body. And from this place. I'm more interested in defending or proving myself to be right rather than being open and curious. Curious is like turning everything upside down.
Curious is.
Like hanging upside down in a tree and looking at everything from a completely different angle and going, huh. Wow. This is what occurred. What can we learn from it? It's like having this fantastic toddler's mindset.
Of deep curiosity, of open mindedness and open hearted.
And even open in my body.
And I take.
Everything with a little light heartedness. I don't get.
Too serious, even when.
We'Re dealing with serious things. Everywhere I go, when I tell people I'm here to help get rid of drama, especially in the workplace, every single person says we, it's pervasive. What's it look like to eliminate drama here at work? We end up being more creative, we feel more connected to each other, everybody's got more energy, everybody wins. Start getting curious and stop being so right. If you started owning all of your results, stopped blaming, took 100% responsibility and.
