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Crystal Place

About the Author

Playful Trekker's Founder, Crystal Place, is a Content Creator, Producer/Director, Play Speaker, Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher, and Take Back Your Time Advocate. She is currently traveling slowly around the world interviewing extraordinary people that live their lives a little bit differently, offer good ol' inspiration, or have expertise and insight to add to the ever-expanding PLAY discussion. She is enamored with the science behind our deep biological drive to play and humanity's powerful pursuit of happiness, and is constantly on the lookout for the best, hidden and most amazing types of Play, in places around the globe. Don't be afraid to contact her directly. She often has a full schedule, but welcomes new projects that relate to PT's mission.

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65 – Centenarians and What We Can Learn From Them

A little over a decade ago, when my team and I were working on the documentary Alzheimer’s Disease: Facing the […]

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64 – Urban Exploration as a Form of Play

Summary…   Read the full story at NPR here. And if you’re feeling inspired, here you can discover 5 secret underground […]

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63 – “No Vacation Nation”

Summary…   Read the full article at CNN here, and a similar story from the BBC here.

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62 – LISTEN: Want to live to 100? Don’t miss this one!

Adaptive Confidence, or the ability to bounce back from stress, appears to be one of the most important and critical […]

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61 – Overtime and its link to Depression:

Summary…   Read the full article at The Atlantic here.

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60 – Brain Pickings: Discovering Animals Emotional Lives

Brain Pickings has to be one of my all time favorite sites on ALL of the internet. She was one […]

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59 – The Exploratorium and Adult Play

Today, we’re time-traveling back to 1980 with the publication The Exploratorium. In this issue, they honor Dr. Frank Oppenheimer who… […]

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58 – An Interesting Perspective on “The Abolition of Work”

He doesn’t mean what you might think he means, but then, he kinda does. Summary and thoughts… Read the full […]

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