Comments on: The Metaphors We Live By

By: metaphors - StartTags.com

metaphors - StartTags.com — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:58:18 +0000

[...] from reading on that the metaphor of golf for life worked on lots of levels: you always learn …The Metaphors We Live ByMetaphors have a very important effect on our behavior, despite the fact that we don't think about [...]

By: david krane

david krane — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:47:24 +0000

life is the bullet u r the taget

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:41:55 +0000

@ Duff: Seeing Lakoff would be cool, and Cognitive Linguistics is definitely cool. Phil Language is one of those weird fields in which you do a lot of fascinating metathinking to the point in which you wonder which level of thinking you’re thinking about.

Looking forward to our dialogue!

By: Duff

Duff — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:28:55 +0000

Wow, great article, Charles.

I recently saw Lakoff speak, and I’ve been fascinated by Cognitive Linguistics (how we think and create meaning in words) since studying Philosophy of Language in college.

I’d love to dialogue more about what metaphorical concepts would be more appropriate to productivity, goals, awakened doing, mindful action, etc.

By: Strategic Withdrawal: Quitting for the Rest of Us | Productive Flourishing

Strategic Withdrawal: Quitting for the Rest of Us | Productive Flourishing — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:47:15 +0000

[...] dialect is fairly predictable. After years of being led by acolytes of the corporate masters into thinking that we need to get more done, we’re tired. We recognize that we can’t get it all done – so now we’re [...]

By: Link Travelogue (Vol. 3) | Productive Flourishing

Link Travelogue (Vol. 3) | Productive Flourishing — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:39:50 +0000

[...] Part of life is knowing how to recover from stupid mistakes, but another, even more important part, is figuring out how to avoid them in the first place. Scott’s insightful post helps with the latter aspect. My favorite: “Metaphors are your intellectual weapons to prevent mistakes.” And I’ve made it known how I feel about metaphors. [...]

By: Don't We Get To Choose What Words Mean? | Productive Flourishing (formerly APPD)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:03:58 +0000

[...] We can, and often do, attach different thoughts, ideas, and emotions and transfer them onto words. Most of the words used in the personal development arena – happiness, productivity, success, and, yes, even flourishing – intertwine different thoughts, ideas, and emotions. This can be both good and bad. It’s bad, for example, when we understand productivity to be externally oriented – as I mentioned the other day, productivity is not about things. [...]

By: Charles Gilkey

Charles Gilkey — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:25:03 +0000

@ Clay: We’ve been having somewhat of a dialogue between our two blogs and the two posts were right on point with what I was talking about. They were also the best posts I’ve read on visualizing goals in a bit, to boot.

My current brainstew has a lot to do with the follow through of goals. We’ll see if it helps. Thanks for dropping by!

By: Fashion » The Metaphors We Live By

Fashion » The Metaphors We Live By — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:49:42 +0000

[...] Productive Flourishing (formerly APPD) wrote an interesting post today on The Metaphors We Live ByHere’s a quick excerpt … e noted that understanding time in a linear fashion is a very recent metaphor in human culture….Understanding time in the circular way more clearly shows the relationships between the hours, days, weeks, and years than the linear fashion does – and it should b…Another thing that confused people about the Daily Productivity Heatmap was that I presented time in a circular fashion rather than in a linear fashion…. [...]

By: Clay Collins | The Growing Life

Clay Collins | The Growing Life — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:49:15 +0000

I liked what you said about getting things done. I think a better phrase would be "getting goals done." There's a lot of focus on goal setting, which is important, but there's less on the follow up. By the way, I'm honored that such a great blogger as yourself would link to me twice in one article, by the way. Clay Collins | The Growing Life's last blog post..How to Engineer the Attentional Feng Shui of a Room