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Very often we humans use metaphors to describe things.

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Usually to make it easier on the brain.

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I read this fascinating book a while back called "Metaphors We Live By." by George Lakoff, one of Chomsky's original students.

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It wasn't quite what I expected.

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I was thinking it would be about some kind of mystical metaphysics or something.

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Maybe the deep meaning of life.

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But it was something far more profound, and illustrates how pretty much ALL of our thinking is based on metaphors for what lies beneath the

seemingly normal surface of reality.

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Basically, whenever we use a noun that's not a real object, (sometimes in NLP these are called nominalizations), we have to use them AS IF they

are a real object.

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And the preposition (the word that comes before them in the sentence) we use WITH THEM describes what kind of noun our subconscious minds

think they are.

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I know, this sounds kind of confusing.

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But think of the noun, "meeting."

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It's not a physical thing.

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Sure, there's the meeting room, the table, the chairs, the people.

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But the meeting itself is an abstract concept.

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What KIND of noun do our brains think it is?

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A container. How do we know this? Because we say "I'm IN a meeting." We don't say "on" a meeting, or "under" a meeting. We say "in" a

meeting. And we are "in" containers.

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How about a train, plane, or boat?

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We say "on." Like it's a vehicle.

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How about a team? We also say "on."

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Because we travel with a team, to meet other teams.

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Also like a vehicle.

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Compared to a club, which is more like a container. "In" the club.

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There's basically five or six different basic categories we put these abstract nouns in (containers, barriers, passages, buildings,

companions, etc).

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Which means in our most basic, fundamental every day language, we're describing these abstract concepts in a way that we can pretend to

make sense of them.

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Most people imagine that reality is pretty simple.

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That what you see is what you get.

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But you know there's much more.

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The surface is just what's on top.

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What if all you thought about the ocean was what it looked like on top?

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You know that there's MUCH MORE to this "reality" than meets the eye. Much more underneath the surface.

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Stuff most people don't even know exists, let alone go looking for.

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How about you?

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Are you willing to dig through the false surface, to see what's REALLY inside?

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