Catalytic Catharsis
Metaphors are like catalytic enzymes. Here’s the key - same content but different context. In other words the same atoms but different molecules or the same amino acids but different proteins. We have [Read More]
Catching The Signs
The initial response to notifications sent about the website from people on the waiting list for years has been encouraging with a little coincidence thrown in for good measure: "This [Read More]
A Partnership With Meaning
Separate but connected - that’s a principle of both metaphors and biology, things being different and alike at the same time, the same components rearranged. Do metaphors reflect intrinsic features of [Read More]
The Hidden Support
Since nature is not egalitarian by the mere fact of different creatures having different levels of skill and force to get what they want, cruelty is built into the framework [Read More]
Anticipating The Unconscious
When we mess with the unconscious, then it messes things up in our lives internally or externally or both. We all know when we're messing with the unconscious. Two of [Read More]
Cultivating Inquisitiveness
It’s not the degree of conviction that matters in the long run. Individuals have great conviction about the goodness of their beliefs and actions even though they are harmful to [Read More]
Lens of Wonder
One of the most commonly misused terms, in my non-expert view, is “counter intuitive”. Most people fail to distinguish between instinct and intuition. When they say something is counter intuitive, [Read More]
Success Shadows
It will be interesting whether individuals respond to the Keen Outlooks Cards like they do to the Shadow Cards. Will they like them as much? That’s the doubt often lurking [Read More]
Orbiting Metaphors
"It’s the combination of simple laws that give us drama, that give us the spectacle and wonderful phenomena we can see.” - Katherine Blundell, Gresham Professor of Astronomy Having paid [Read More]