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I, too, have spent a great deal of time reading Lakoff’s works and even presented on the Strict Father/Nurturant Parent paradigm at a leadership conference years ago.

While my politics are wildly divergent from his today, I have never forgotten the game-changing power of framing as well as the capability of metaphors to shape thinking.

Thank you for calling attention to these valuable lessons and how we can use them to reclaim cultural, neurological, and political spaces, Toby.

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Thank you Margaret! 🙌

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Maybe talk more about how we can use them in our conversations with say, our family members so we can regain some credibility rather than being assumed to be senescing.

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