Re-Framing
An equanimous subject is ready to meet the world on its own terms.
Michael Uebel • Equanimity is not stillness – it is a mobility of the mind | Psyche Ideas
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
Somebody asked me the other day, how I stop myself from going down rabbit holes and stay focused during my spark writing time?
And simple answer is, I don't.
Here's the thing. What if chasing rabbit holes & getting distracted is a normal part of our human... See more
️ Ev Chapman | Creative Entrepreneurx.comWhat is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
The role of metaphor and narrative, as opposed to new theories or experiments, is too little recognised in discussions of the historian of science Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts, supposed (and contested) moments of dramatic change in science. All scientists know how to go about scrutinising a theory: you use it to formulate some testable hypothesis,... See more
Philip Ball • We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
