ppendages i-vii, six antenae

Take something that seems personally, self-satisfyingly playful. Play it for its own sake. Take it into a social setting, present it in some manner, perhaps subtlety. Observe the response. Be amused. Try again. Show more people. If you know someone who knows a lot of people, do something with them. If it doesn’t evoke any response, consider how another presentation might appeal to another.

A second approach comes from educating to change behavior. We can look at what makes someone change behavior. Optimizing this factor makes an enhancement more effective. If an outcome leads to a predictable and consistent outcome, participants more likely attend to it. If an outcome of a changed behavior occurs regularly, then people more likely engage in that behavior. Finally if the measure of the effect reveals itself clearly, then people more likely change the behavior, as they have a way to assess how close they come to accomplishing the behavior.



Enhancing Exercise #6:Enhancements

1. Introduce a type of tag
2. Introduce a new word and meaning to an old expression, perhaps a special form of greeting. Consider using something that comes from childhood that seemed ubiquitous until we noticed no one else said that. I laugh at the endearments that my father called his sons. I can’t spell them. They remain evocative, personal and playful.
3. Tell the same story altering a significant detail in each retelling
4. Talk about playing as a child and get others to elaborate their play memories. Keep searching for more details from the memory. “And then what happened? And then? And who played with what? How did that happen?”
5. Introduce into a new setting a curious aspect of an activity overheard.
6. Enhance an activity with an idea heard in someone’s play memory.





Exercise the other aspect of temperament that we access less easily. Try this:

III; Use emotion as a guide for approaching a thought process and think through an emotional experience. These require careful tweaking because thinking through emotions may dodge the emotion. If the experience seems familiar, immediately try the converse.