“If little kids could play more, you´d have better engineers, better managers and more inspiration in the workplace”

As quoted on page 56 in "Under Pressure" by Carl Honoré (2008) https://books.google.ae/books/about/Under_Pressure.html?id=l7Yq9rKivMgC&redir_esc=y and also quoted in the Vancouver Sun newspaper on April 28th 2008 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=60b255fc-910e-4dc1-ae6d-50961b0e7a2c and in a 2013 academic paper entitled Hard Skills Will Qualify You, with Soft Skills You’ll Rank the First by Eva Trumpesova Rudolfova, Lenka Zouhar Ludvikova of Masaryk University, Czech Republic https://is.muni.cz/repo/1169958/ECE2013_0305.pdf. Also quoted in many other sources including in Spanish.
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Context: If little kids could play more, you´d have better engineers, better managers and more inspiration in the workplace. If you deny a toddler the chance to play and then put him in a preschool where he is always competing and being measured, you get fear and that leads to an unwillingness to take risks. You end up with boring adults.

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