About Peter Gray
OUR PLAYFULNESS is a most valuable aspect of our human nature (second, perhaps, only to our capacity for love and kindness). It is what makes life worthwhile. In children, it promotes the learning of essential human skills, and in all of us it promotes happiness, peacefulness, and cooperation. It is the engine of creativity and invention, and thus of cultural evolution.
This series of letters is about the many ways that play makes us fully human, and it is often also about ways that we might bring more play and playfulness into our own lives and those of others.
About the Author
I am Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology and neuroscience who for many years has been studying play.