19-10-07 Language Re-Representation

The same idea / meaning / concept can generally be communicated and represented in many ways. These are a few of those representations.

Question
1. Ex., from statement “I wanted to know what tools for thought could be created” to question “I asked myself, what tools for thought could be created?”
2. A list of different ways to think about a problem can be re-represented as a list of leading questions
  1. Ex., How could we accomplish that 10 year task in 6 months?
  2. Ex., How would an economist approach this problem?
Statement
1. Hopefully self explanatory
Accusation
1. Ex., from statement “I learned to deepen my relationships” to question “Have you learned how to deepen your relationships?” to accusation “and so you failed because you never learned to deepen your relationships”
Assumption vs. Conclusion / Statement
1. Since people in the valley speak more quickly, there’s a ubiquitous anxiety around ‘more’ vs. It’s as if people in the valley speak more quickly. And if they do, that it creates a sense that we are constantly not going fast enough.
2. This is a cornerstone of ‘holding frame’, where your thoughts are framed as assumptions rather than debatable conclusions.
Objective vs. Subjective
1. Ex., ‘Since’ statements vs. ‘I think / I believe that’ statements
Concrete to Abstract
1. Ex., from “I was crushed and cried when my puppy died” to “It’s tragic when beloved pets die”
Abstract to Concrete
1. Ex., Stonewalling
Conceptual vs. Explicit
1. Ex., “She was stonewalling” vs. “He just shut down, averting his eyes. Just went silent. He didn’t want to make things worse.”
Narrative vs. Conceptual
1. Ex., Telling the story of the time when you were rejected by the brilliant girls instead of saying ‘rejection can be rough’
Escalation
The same idea, but in a more extreme form
Rewording

Source: Original Google Doc