Eight ways to explore your dark side (and tap into insane energy)

Deliberate play often involves introducing novelty and variety into practice. That can be in the ways you learn, the tools you use, the goals you set, and the people with whom you interact.

a lot of people around the world deliberately choose to engage in painful experiences—flogging, bondage, having hot wax dripped on them—and derive pleasure and satisfaction from those experiences.

I’ve met quite a few of these inspiring folks over the years, and I always have the same response when I see how they approach their lives with a playful mindset. You can fucking do that? These are the folks who are able to clarify what they want, be bold enough to actually own it, and then do the work to make it happen. They challenge their fears

What would make it energizing? What would make it playful?