Re-Framing

Analogy and the Roots of Creative Intelligence

Keith Holyoak thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

A key shift in consciousness is when one learns to break frames. This does not mean to discard them, but rather to recognize that every frame is in need of constant updating. In order to allow the updating of any frame, we must remove any sense of identity from that frame.

Ken Lowry • Frames

There is a social cost to early-moving because all our reward systems are baked into those preexisting mutually reinforcing frames. When we adopt a new frame (e.g. “the climate crisis is an emergency worth our sustained attention”) we put at risk any reward systems in conflict with our new frame.

Spencer R. Scott • Emergencies, Frameshifts and What They Tell Us About Our Place in the World

Lakoff reminds us that metaphors are the fundamental building blocks we use to make sense of our world and provide a framework for acting in the world

Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis

‘Sympoiesis’: An Environmental Keyword For New Nature Writers

Gavin Lamb, PhD medium.com

s the philosopher Elisabeth Camp explains, a perspective ‘helps us to do things with the thoughts we have: to make quick judgments based on what’s most important, to grasp intuitive connections, and to respond emotionally, among other things.’ Through perspective some features of our experiences ‘stick out in our minds while others fade into the... See more

psyche.co • Your Life Is Not a Story: Why Narrative Thinking Holds You Back

Frontiers | Research trends in multimodal metaphor: a bibliometric analysis

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Paul Venuto • feed updates

While all layers are always present and all are vital to understand any situation, Inayatullah (2003b, p.6) places a “higher” value on the mythic/metaphor layer because it informs all the other layers. Meadows (2008) similarly believes the most effective leverage point in a system is one that “transcends the paradigm”. For Meadows the “highest”... See more