Co-authors Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, on finding the right frame:
“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.”
This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That’s all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don’t really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.
Life is not a ledger of absolute facts. Facts are fragments, facets cut into the stone of perception. Each angle reflects light, but never the whole.
When we insist on one face alone, we mistake a partial reflection for truth. Yet when we allow our awareness to turn the stone in our hands, to regard it from every angle,... See more