Re-Framing
The rules had been constructed long before I was born, and I did not know yet I was allowed to break them or redefine them or ignore them entirely.
— Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You
The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
Metaphor originates from the Greek word meta meaning ‘across’ and pherein meaning ‘to carry’. Metaphor allows us to bring forth or carry over a deeper context which words on face-value can lack.
Giles Hutchins • The Need For Metaphor: A Shift from Machine to Nature
As Pablo Picasso once put it: “Everything you can imagine is real.” To which I would add: but only everything you can imagine.
Jonathan Rowson • Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Successful creative people don’t merely comply with externally imposed constraints, but transform them through reframing. They adopt constraints as personal challenges rather than external impositions.
The creative power of constraints
We might not be able to escape the sociopolitical systems that structure the world at large, but by knowing they exist, we can be more intentional about how we move through and beyond them.