I have been fascinated by the intelligence, extreme curiosity, and playfulness of otters for years. Excellent info site and pics here . It seems that they try to find a way of making a game of everything they do - whether it be juggling a fish, picking up pebbles under water, or sliding down a mud-bank during the warm months or a snow-bank in the winter. To me they are the natural geniuses of the animal world, making a game of life. The best and easiest way to learn rapidly, deeply, and wholesomely is to make learning fun. Make the learning fun enough, and the world opens up for the learner, because his or her interest, passion and joy are engaged, i.e., the learner begins learning with his or her whole being.
Some humans also attempt to find something fascinating and interesting about everything in their environment. They try to make everything fun. This mind-set frees ones genius. Perhaps our lives would be better if we did more to pattern them after this wonderful creature that does not ignore its responsibilities in its pursuit of enjoyment of life, but manages to integrate them remarkably well.
Viktor Frankl: "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."