How compelling did you find Alistair Campbell’s metaphoric description of his breakdown, broadcast on Andrew Marr’s programme at the weekend

“You feel your mind is like a plate of glass and you are desperately trying to hold it together. You are conscious of something being wrong. And everything that you do to try and get it back into what you imagine is some even keel is just making it worse. And then it just sort of cracks, it just shatters, and inside your head you feel this explosion goes off…”

We use metaphor easily and naturally to communicate complex ideas, because we’re hardwired to think in metaphor, and to understand other people’s ideas from their metaphors. It’s as if metaphor is the native language of the mind.

And there’s more to discover. Clean Language uses the casual, superficial metaphors that occur naturally in language to discover the hidden depths of our thought processes, to bring them into the light of awareness, and, where relevant, to help them to change.

Tags: alistair campbell, breakdown, metaphor, mind

This entry was posted on Wednesday 29 October 2008 and is filed under Blog.

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