From the utility and limitations of metaphors to an approach for building empathy in the interactions we have with others, sense-making plays a key role in how we participate in the world around us. Dive in to the episode to see how the conversation unfolds.
Date of Recording
November 26th 2020
Timestamps
- Summary of last episode - intro to machine and informational metaphor (02:11)
- Why metaphors are useful but insufficient (05:23)
- The flip side of using informational metaphors (12:04)
- The ineffable lived experience of culture (14:23)
- The danger of applying the mechanical or software lens too tightly (17:21)
- The informational driven patterns and human experience (19:24)
- Tool invention to sense-making (22:06)
- The decoupling of innovation and human experience (25:01)
- The blank slate fallacy (29:23)
- Rejecting the narrative (33:27)
- Psychological triggers and Forrest Landry’s three levels of perception (35:26)
- Building Sovereignty (42:16)
- Jungian sub-personalities and social media (44:13)
- Sub-personalities and the polluted information ecology (51:17)
- Reframing personal relationships as a pathway to empathy and crossing divides (52:49)
- Finding the signal in the noise (01:00:19)
- Collapsing into worldviews, sense-making and bridge building (01:02:00)
- Holding and seeking value in multiple perspectives (01:12:17)
- The psychology of anxiety in uncertainty (01:15:08)
- Stepping into the undefined and navigating the unknown as agents (01:21:30)
- The new metaphors - the surfer (01:23:07)
- Takeaways and questions to ask ourselves (01:27:38)
Questions to ponder over
- What might be some of the other ways of finding signal in the noise in our arenas as we try to navigate them? How might we do that?
- How might we hold the uncertainty that we need to hold for others and the people around us?
- How else do we use metaphors to make sense of our world?
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