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my thoughts in brown or italic

Thoughts

• inner stories and language we use matter a lot
  • let’s be careful what metaphors we use in our regular life
• one word “friend” compresses such a deep multidimensionality of relationships. (→when sharing a story with them, better to give a friend a name right away. )
• language also created this whole notion of “self”
• we can come up w our own metaphors → poetry is so cool
• metaphors give things new meaning

our human brain tendencies

• our brain just wants to put abstract things into tangible things
• search for explanatory power
• we want to put things into boxes, define them, give them boundaries. this gives us an ability yo control and make utiulity out of it.
  • understanding a situation where we see the fog as being in front of a mountain requires us to view a mountains and fog as a entities

questions/wonderings

• Did west assume objectivity bc it makes it easier to control people? would conservative politic align w objectivi
• verb vs noun: how would we think differently if friend was active verb → you put in effort in friendsh
• i am curious what abstract thinsg have the least metaphors — perhaps its emotions

Highlights from the book

• we must ditinguish between: (1) the experience itself; (2) the concepts we employ
• linguistic expressions are containers for meaning