Every week, I get lots of suggestions from well-meaning folks of all varieties for books they think I might be interested in, videos to watch, articles, and so forth that seem related to the work that I do. I’m not surprised by this. As someone who has studied learning for the past 30+ years (yikes [ Read more … ]
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Fundamental Change Depends on our Capacity to Engage with Metaphor
Metaphor is at the core of nearly every scientific breakthrough throughout history, and celebrated scientists like Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman and Albert Einstein relied on metaphor to help them make new discoveries. At all levels of society—personal, cultural, scientific, social, political—fundamental change depends upon our ability to engage with metaphor. Aristotle claimed that his soul [ Read more … ]
Metaphor Changes How We Perceive…and Therefore, How We Think
Years ago I was listening to a radio program where a climate scientist was being interviewed on someone’s show and they were taking questions from the audience. The first person to call in said, “No way. It doesn’t matter how much data you have. Climate change is not real.” It was clear that no amount [ Read more … ]
California Writers! Upcoming class
I love working with artists and writers… AND I have a class for artists and writers coming up this weekend at Book Passage in Corte Madera, I hope you can join me! Scroll to the bottom for details. This month I spoke at the California Writers Club. It was their super fun Halloween meeting, and [ Read more … ]
Metaphor inspires us to produce, create & grow
Metaphor MOVES us energetically…inspiring & compelling us to produce, create & grow. The video below is from my talk at the Experience Joshua Tree Conference in June 2018. Enjoy! P.S. The video was shot by Sandra Goodin photography. (…edited by me.)