The Play factor, as a tool of exploratory learning, can serve to help us in gathering and shaping information and resources needed in establishing the new thoughts, ideas and relationships of our changing lives and interests.

In general: It can help us,

1. To develop our perceptual skills in improving the accuracy of our perception of the world around us.
2. To work smarter, not harder.
3. To improve our belief in ourselves, to build our self confidence and to lead us to more satisfactory ways of living.

More specifically, It can help us to:

1. Discover “cool” ways of engaging our world of people, materials and things as a loose, playful way of processing information.
2. Discover critical thinking skills with which to improve our ability to navigate the diverse currents of our new environment. (We must first know where we are, before we can move forward) in any direction.
3. Focus our energies with greater effectiveness.
4. Translate our ideas and dreams into realized forms within our environment.
5. Deal more successfully with complexity that is, to deal more effectively with complex problems, situations, and issues.
6. Understand that all relationships and structures are patterns of interrelated parts.
7. Improve our pattern recognition abilities to learn to see the structural patterns of relationships and forms in order to work more effectively with them.
8. See the interrelatedness of all things.
9. Create the new systems, forms and structures to fill in the gaps generated by the rapid changes of our present environment.
10. Level the playing field between people and organizations, between the rich and the poor, between the “talented” and the “untalented” etc.