Metaphors

How to Think About Possibility – And Why It Matters

The idea of possibility is so embedded into our thinking and language that we often forget that it’s something to think about, but it turns out that a deeper understanding of possibility can radically change our lives for the better. I’ve been thinking about possibilities for a good while now and have been slowly synthesizing [...]

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Why Productivity is Bunk

Productivity gets a bad rap these days. A few people I respect and am inspired by have gone as far as to say (pretty much) “I don’t give a rat’s ass about productivity, and neither does anyone else who’s worth talking about.” All of a sudden, productivity is chopped liver. Why is this?

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Don’t We Get to Choose What Words Mean?

Clay (author of TheGrowingLife) wrote a brilliant comment on my last post dissenting (somewhat) about the importance of words, roots, and their meaning. I started to write a comment in response but it became clear that that response is its own post. First, I really appreciate Clay voicing his comment, for multiple reasons. I love [...]

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The Metaphors We Live By

Are you feeling down today? Want to know how to save time? He’s in a dark mood today. I’m trying to get more done. All of the sentences above involve the use of metaphors. “The essence of metaphors,” Lakoff and Johnson argued in Metaphors We Live By, “is understanding one kind of thing in terms [...]

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