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Quiz: Find Your Happy Place

All this week, NPR Ed is focusing on questions about why people play and how play relates to learning.

Play is a part of healthy development, an integral ingredient in learning, a nostalgic pastime. It's good for your body and your brain.

There's something inherently youthful about play, of course, but it's not just kid stuff. Play has a vital role in adult lifeas well.

But in our all-too-purposeful adult world, it's easy to skip your playtime. That's where we come in. Take this short quiz and it will tell you what play vitamins are most missing in your life. Then we'll give you a couple of prescriptions for how to add the fun back in.

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Tyler Fisher
Danny DeBelius
Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project.