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It can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you're playing a competitive sport, or have to speak in public.

Many people love to glorify victory on the playing field, cheer for favorite teams, and play sports.

Is playing sports actually as good for us as we make it out to be, or just a fun and entertaining pastime?

And then there's learning through failure, one of the most transformative, long-term benefits of playing sports.

But it's also had a stunning side effect, and it wasn't until recently that I fully understood it, that I understood that saying yes to playing with my children likely saved my career.

I wish it were that easy, but I'm not good at playing.

I don't like playing.

I play and I play until I begin to wonder why we ever stop playing in the first place.

It's not about playing with your kids, it's about joy.

It's about playing in general.

Your favorite band is great at playing music, but not so great at being organized.

And a few hours later, they're playing to thousands of adoring fans.

Mastering any physical skill, be it performing a pirouette, playing an instrument, or throwing a baseball, takes practice.

So it's the combination of all these factors playing out to differing degrees in different animals that explains the variability we see in the animal kingdom.

But the one thing that I always looked forward to was playing around with my cousins.

So if you look at the video behind me, you can see two Meta users playing around with the same hologram, making eye contact, connected around this thing, instead of being distracted by external devices.

Guitar Hero came out of our lab, and my two teenage daughters and most of the students at the MIT Media Lab are proof that if you make the right kind of interface, people are really interested in being in the middle of a piece of music, and playing it over and over and over again.

It's a real experience, not only to learn how to play and listen to rhythms, but to train your musical memory and playing music in a group.

I love giving talks, although strangely I feel more nervous giving talks than playing music.

If I were here playing cello, or playing on a synth, or sharing my music with you, I'd be able to show things about myself that I can't tell you in words, more personal things, perhaps deeper things.

And as you're thinking of the consequences of that, then we've been playing with stuff that's a little bit more advanced, like art.

I would wake up at 5am, start playing and not stop until I had mastered them.

I studied double bass, but I just picked up the cello and started playing because I love doing it.

One Monopoly marathon, Saturday morning, I was playing with my kids and noticed that they were all playing just outside of the rules of the game.

We just want her on the board with us', or, 'He can pay me back at the end of the game, when he's flush with cash', and I'm thinking again, 'What am I teaching these kids?' So, I started watching how they were playing - listening to their banter, getting a feel for how they were making decisions - and I had this thought: 'What if they're playing this way because the money isn't real?' It's a concept I've been reading a lot about, lately, 'Financial abstraction', the notion that when money becomes more and more of an idea, less tangible and therefore more abstract, it changes the way we interact with it on a regular basis, and there's anecdotal evidence of abstraction everywhere around us.

So as I'm playing with my kids and I'm watching them play, listening to them talk, I thought, 'What if the money were real on the table?

Instead of playing with the grandchildren, she now has to travel three times a week two hours up and down to Amsterdam just to get her treatment and tests."

So Edward Teach redesigned himself as Blackbeard by playing the part of a merciless brute.

And it was fun, playing with big guns and high-speed video cameras.

And I think it was best witnessed when Thomas was playing the music as we came in the room today.

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