There is a reason why 98% of two year olds consider themselves to be creative, and only 2% of twenty-five year olds hold onto that claim, and the reason is not their potential, but the external environment that suffocates the natural bias for curiosity, play, and exploration. Unfortunately, our natural bias for creativity is stifled and atrophies over time producing unimaginative adults that are afraid to think and often intimidated by the unknown or different. I am blessed to have two delicious granddaughters, age six and four. I love to play with them. I learn so much and I have so much fun. We play store, put on shows, delve into arts and crafts, pretend we make facial products, hunt for worms, and well, the list goes on and on. The other day I told them that I really like children so much better than adults.  And their simple reply, “Adults don’t play”. Aesthetic Intelligence demands the presence to be in the moment, to truly suspend our judgments. It is this posture, an artist’s posture that sets the stage for “play”. It takes a stubborn person to remain an artist in a society that values conformity, and it will take the same courage and tenacity of organizations to create a culture where adults can reconnect with their innate artistic capacities.             Plato said, “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” How do you play? How do you encourage play?