Bonzo Standard Three:

Discovery through Play- When information is first presented to the right side of the brain, the intuitive and emotional realm, then the joy of discovery takes place as it is not sabotaged by the left side of the brain first.

Think back as far as you can to when you were a child. All of life was about playing. As you grew you discovered boundaries and dangers. When you first discovered how to make a sand castle out of play you discovered that when you added water to the sand that it made your castle firm, almost like a loose form of concrete. Think about how much fun it was to draw or paint outside the borders or lines that existed. Think about how you discovered color with your first box of crayons. You had never known a stick could be made out of a colored wax. When you first payed in a sand box you knew you had a boundary to hold the sand in but that boundary did not keep you from just experimenting with the sand.

Now that you are older it is hard to think of a form of play that does not have a boundary. Discovery through play is how great artists push their ideas to the limit. Great writers first over write and then re-write, then edit down. Great painters push paint around on a canvas until a certain color is expressed through playing with the paint. A great musician discovers play through improvising, this is how jazz music was formed.

In the form below think of a moment in time when you simply played at something. Did it lead you to anything as a result?