"The architectural metaphor of the ‘glass ceiling’ expresses the barriers often invisible to men"
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Some friends are ‘close’– others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more than just metaphors.
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We have to condition ourselves to move past our Glass Ceiling.
We can do these through improved knowledge, increasing our personal bandwidth, experience, and accepting our inherent strengths and weaknesses.
Simplify processes and remove barriers to encourage desired behavior.
• Laying out workout clothes the night before increases the likelihood of exercising.
• “What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.”
Recent research suggests that across all cultures, the concept of time depends on metaphor, known as a conceptual metaphor. We build our understanding of duration and sequences of events out of familiar spatial ideas such as size, movement, and location.
But the "time is l...
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