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Play Out, Don’t Work Out
By Peter Gray — 2021
Play your way to a happy, healthy, and long life.
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions.