KISS?
Don owns a frame shop. He’s a nice friendly Jewish chap. One of his heroes is Viktor Frankel. You remember Viktor. During the holocaust, the Nazi’s threw him in prison and every day was torture. Viktor survived by positively reframing his thoughts so that he was going to get some good out that horrible experience. And he did, more than he imagined, because you are at Don’s shop right now learning how to reframe your experiences, and Don learned a lot from Viktor.
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Hi Don, how are you?
“Good to see you. How are you?”
Good. This is a friend of mine. (You.) We wanted to find out if you could help us with these pictures.
“No problem. Looks like the glass is okay. Maybe you need new frames.”
What do you suggest?
“Well, let me show you my process. You see this picture. It was left here this morning. See, it’s a picture of a boy and his mother. The frame is really old and tarnished.”
Yeah.
“Well, turn it on. Hit that button. Now, what do you see?”
Looks like mommy is shaking her finger at the boy. What’s that she’s saying?
“You’ll go blind. Hair will grow on your palm. You’ll never grow up and if you do you’ll be weak. When the time comes you won’t have any left. Stop it, or you’ll go insane.”
“Mitt en der slanger,” as Freud would say.
How do you change that?
“Well, in this shop. I don’t actually do the work. I just provide the materials and give the advice. My advice to him is first clean the glass and put a nice gold frame around the picture. That makes it very pleasant to look at.”
Yes.
“The boy is obviously hen pecked so we change the picture. Mommy becomes a little hen. See, now he’s bigger than his mommy who is now a hen. And see how as the hen gets small, maybe even we put a few golden eggs in the picture. . . Turn it on now. . . . See how much more fun it is. The boy’s a lot bigger and even has a smile on his face.”
“Squack, squack, squack.”
“Every time the hen squacks the boy laughs. Whenever he looks back at that picture he’ll feel good.”
DON’S FRAME SHOP
Don owns a frame shop. He’s a nice friendly Jewish chap. One of his heroes is Viktor Frankel. You remember Viktor. During the holocaust, the Nazi’s threw him in prison and every day was torture. Viktor survived by positively reframing his thoughts so that he was going to get some good out that horrible experience. And he did, more than he imagined, because you are at Don’s shop right now learning how to reframe your experiences, and Don learned a lot from Viktor.
*********
Hi Don, how are you?
“Good to see you. How are you?”
Good. This is a friend of mine. (You.) We wanted to find out if you could help us with these pictures.
“No problem. Looks like the glass is okay. Maybe you need new frames.”
What do you suggest?
“Well, let me show you my process. You see this picture. It was left here this morning. See, it’s a picture of a boy and his mother. The frame is really old and tarnished.”
Yeah.
“Well, turn it on. Hit that button. Now, what do you see?”
Looks like mommy is shaking her finger at the boy. What’s that she’s saying?
“You’ll go blind. Hair will grow on your palm. You’ll never grow up and if you do you’ll be weak. When the time comes you won’t have any left. Stop it, or you’ll go insane.”
“Mitt en der slanger,” as Freud would say.
How do you change that?
“Well, in this shop. I don’t actually do the work. I just provide the materials and give the advice. My advice to him is first clean the glass and put a nice gold frame around the picture. That makes it very pleasant to look at.”
Yes.
“The boy is obviously hen pecked so we change the picture. Mommy becomes a little hen. See, now he’s bigger than his mommy who is now a hen. And see how as the hen gets small, maybe even we put a few golden eggs in the picture. . . Turn it on now. . . . See how much more fun it is. The boy’s a lot bigger and even has a smile on his face.”
“Squack, squack, squack.”
“Every time the hen squacks the boy laughs. Whenever he looks back at that picture he’ll feel good.”
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