Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here's this month's installment. Small talk is the tax that God extracted for the privilege of human speech.It is a different skill to communicate an idea than to understand it.If someone says there was too much, then something about it was unappealing.Why not? is a terrible … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-05
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Metaphor as Mental Model
"In 2011, Stanford researchers Paul Thibodeau and Lera Boroditsky published research that showed how the way we talk about crime changes our ideas about what to do about it. They asked two groups of students to read reports about crime in their area - one using a metaphor of crime as a ‘beast’ that was … Continue reading Metaphor as Mental Model
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