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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2008-07-21 10:59 am
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Reframing Questions

This article is worthwhile despite its annoying misinterpretation of "myth" as "wrong idea." Scroll down to the reframing questions; those are illuminating.

[identity profile] wyrmwwd.livejournal.com 2008-07-21 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
She has some good ideas. I remember back in the 80s being a part of an employee program to improve the corporate processes of the company that I was working for. Some of those very things were things that I suggested. However, other people at the table rolled their eyes and I was quickly dismissed.

I can see how this is all working out for them.

[identity profile] msminlr.livejournal.com 2008-07-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't read his text as saying "all myths are wrong ideas".
I read it as saying "myths are commonly-held ideas within a culture".
Even *he* says "some myths are true"