{"id":985,"date":"2017-07-25T05:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/Daryl_Chow\/Blog\/wordpress\/fullcircles\/?p=985"},"modified":"2024-03-13T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:55:16","slug":"what-is-the-opposite-of-play-it-is-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/what-is-the-opposite-of-play-it-is-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Opposite of Play? (It&#8217;s not work)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The opposite of play, is not work. It is depression.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">When was the last time you allowed yourself to <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/2016\/12\/29\/heres-one-mental-model-to-change-your-life-press-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">play<\/a><\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Play is an antidote to feeling depressed. Play is fuel; without it, we run on an empty tank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Play is a spark. Many of us need that to reignite our daily living.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Even dogs play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dog-Playing.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dog-Playing-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"Dog Playing\" width=\"676\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dog-Playing-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dog-Playing-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dog-Playing-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dog-Playing.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Work on play, and play at your work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Related posts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; color: #800000; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Here\u2019s One Mental Model to Change Your Life: Press Play\" href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/heres-one-mental-model-to-change-your-life-press-play\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here\u2019s One Mental Model to Change Your Life: Press Play<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; color: #800000; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The Movement of Recovery: Love, Work, &amp; Play\" href=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/the-movement-of-recovery-love-work-play\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Movement of Recovery: Love, Work, &amp; Play<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-title\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Note: I highly recommend <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2usBrlY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stuart Brown, MD book<\/a><\/span>, aptly titled Play. See also his <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TED<\/a> <\/span>talk.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,7,29],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological","tag-action","tag-behavioral-change","tag-play","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}