Framing
Framing is when you direct someone’s attention toward a specific detail. As the narrator of your own story, you get to do the framing.
Allison Fallon • The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
Frames help to do two tasks really well, which we outline in chapter 2. First, in novel situations or when circumstances change, our ability to choose a frame provides us with new options. Second, and at least as important, in situations that are familiar, frames focus our mind, thereby reducing our cognitive load. It’s an incredibly efficient way
... See moreKenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, • Framers
I have always used frameworks to force insight. It’s an old trick of rhetoric: start in front of a large audience with the sentence “There are three key aspects to [name of topic]...” and even if you only think of one at the beginning, the other two will always come to mind; to what I call the prepared mind. So my flip charts have been about forcin
... See moreBoudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
The rule of reframing can look different depending on what you're dealing with. But it always involves seeing a problem from a different angle, with the goal of breaking a cycle of harmful thoughts and behavior.
Justin Bariso • Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Rule of Reframing to Change Their Perspective, Think Differently, and Reduce Anxiety
There is a whole set of second-order experiences that we don’t actively design, but happen as a consequence of what we design. Which means that there’s the potential for a great deal of positive change that can be created simply by shifting how we look and what we look at.