The Blue Pill

14Mar09

Photo by Cliph. Continuing with Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis, at least the parts that are online, I’ve been reading chapter four, which is full of social psychology goodness. (I really must buy the book.) Haidt refers to the powerful metaphor of the red and blue pill that Morpheus offers Neo in The Matrix: After [...]

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exactly what kind of elephant?

07Mar09

WordPress kindly linked my last post to one by Neuronarrative that also mentioned the elephant-rider metaphor. These metaphors help to fix a way of looking at ourselves in our mind, and also help to shed light on patterns of thought and behaviour. Neuronnarrative gives another fine metaphor, this one from the book Managing Your Mind: [...]

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elephant and rider

06Mar09

Continueing with chapter one of The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt… He’s looking at ways the mind can be split “It’s hard to think about the mind, but once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.” He looks at animal-rider metaphors, like Buddha”s: “In days gone by this mind of mine used to [...]

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