You’re Not a Computer, You’re a Tiny Stone in a Beautiful Mosaic
Anna Katharina Schaffner
“We should pay more careful attention to the imagery we use to talk about our inner lives, and be less tolerant of metaphors that cast the self as a broken machine, an entrepreneurial entity, or a lone fighter in enemy territory.”
– Anna Katharina Schaffner
Writer, coach, and professor Anna Katharina Schaffner delves into mind-metaphors, the metaphors we conjure to describe our inner lives. Schaffner pushes us to think of ourselves not as machines but as works of art, and to find self-metaphors that imagine the self as relational, interdependent and pro-social.