Adding ‘playtime’ to your PC schedule can reduce stress

You know, you can read the books, watch the tutorials, peruse the latest articles on the newest latest and greatest software and hardware applications out there, but if you don’t give yourself permission to ‘play’, your just really dancing around the issue of learning ‘holistically’ We as humans learn on many different levels, but until we can touch a keyboard and mouse, or hold the device in our hands, we are missing a little bit of magic that should be incorporated into most if not all of our learning.

Experimenting with things that interest you is not frivolous. It’s almost mandatory. When I worked at the call center, we had an engineering department that had a blast playing with all of the equipment. One of their primary duties were to take a notebook computer, printer, plotter or whatever we were supporting at the time and literally force the machine past its workable threshold in order to find out exactly what the machine would do. The reason for this is that clients in a fast paced business environment do tend to push the limits of their hardware and software, either out of frustration, ignorance or apathy. It’s a human trait, and believe me, we are not about to extract the human trait from the technical world anytime soon, I guarantee it. Especially if Microsoft is still around. (did I just type that out loud) My face is blushing at the cheekiness of that statement.

Anyway, please allow time to play with technology. Fumble, mumble and stumble. That’s my motto. It really is a valid learning method in today’s fast paced moving world.