by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Here is another example of a reframe. In this reframe I change an inability to do something into a choice to attempt it or attempt something else (for a while).<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is another post on reframing things – changing a situation by merely changing the words we use to describe it.<\/p>\n I growing older by the day. I am now in my (early, mind you early) fifties. Twenty years ago I could sit in front of a computer and write hundreds of lines of intricate, complex C code.<\/p>\n I can’t do that anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I guess I am too old to do that anymore. I guess I tire too easily and cannot keep going. I guess I am too lazy to force myself to concentrate that much for that long a time.<\/p>\n I don’t like these statements about myself. Let’s try a reframe:<\/p>\n I stopped trying to do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ah, this sounds better, much better. I don’t transform complex algorithms into working C code any longer because I stopped trying to do that.<\/p>\n There are several ways that this “stopped trying” manifests itself in my life. This first interpretation is that I grew frustrated with writing code and so I stopped the frustration by stopping the effort. I couldn’t do it; I hated the failure, so I stopped trying. There is something from my childhood that causes me to hate this interpretation. I don’t fail<\/em>; I certainly don’t quit<\/em> because I am failing. Instead, I push even harder until I succeed. Stopping trying is a terrible thing.<\/p>\n Then there is another interpretation, and I like this second interpretation much more. It is that I stopped trying because I decided to do something else. This is true for me as I decided to spend my spare time writing in English about subjects of interest instead of writing in C. I switched to talking to people instead of talking to a computer (compile actually).<\/p>\n There are times when I decide to go back to writing code for a computer. I spent many hours doing that last spring as I worked on my son’s computer science homework assignments. I found that great fun to go into a new language (Python), a new development system, a new way of thinking about problems, a new way of making a user interface, a new…well, I hope you have the picture. It was all new, exciting, and yet a return to what I used to do but had stopped trying to do … for a while.<\/p>\n I guess that is another benefit of this reframe. I can change the reframe to:<\/p>\n I stopped trying to do that, but I can go back to trying to do that if I wish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I like the sound of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Here is another example of a reframe. In this reframe I change an inability to do something into a choice to attempt it or attempt something else (for a while). Here is another post on reframing things – changing a situation by merely changing the words we use to describe it. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,60,5],"tags":[145,180,128],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-reframe","category-writing","tag-programming","tag-reframe","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}