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  I am having a hard time understanding what FRAMEWORK means.  So I have looked for the French translations:  le cadre / framework, frame, setting, scope, surroundings, executive la structure / structure, framework, organization, fabric, system, building la charpente / framework, skeleton, woodwork, build, gateway le système / system, method, framework, setup, shape le plan / blueprint, plan, map, plane, scheme, framework les branches / framework la société / society, company, association, framework, folk So my intuition of a structure being a framework - or these two words in my mind being interchangeable might be sort of right. I have been debating my relatioship with framework. I really related to what Matthew, Caleigh and Imogen said about it. A framework could become a "fixed identity" (1) and there, it slips to the darknesses of closed-mind-ness. Or using Honor's metaphor; closed doors.  I realised that there's a pattern going on in my learning practice / pract...

  I grew up in a very big family of Italian immigrants in the North East of France. Family reunions were loud, cheerful. We would sit at the table for hours, eating, singing. My grand father would play mandoline and sing the same songs over and over again. But the loudness. And you HAD to be louder, quicker, more alert than you relatives to survive in this group of people! I believe this shaped my learning style.  No time to think or to overthink. In a family who had to re learn a language, a culture, there was no time for taking the time. Action was their salvation, their pride. My mum and her 8 brothers and sisters would all have careers in jobs where their "hands" were needed. My dad and his 2 relatives, the same. Although there was a tendency for the imagination, the poetic (the mandoline played a role in that). My dad studied Fine Arts and my his brother is a guitarist. They both taught, drawing and music.  The least you would have to speak, the better. It amuses me ...

  I have never been patient. Like. Never. For example; I write these blog posts, I hardly re read them - INITIATING is definitely my learning style.  "Initiating style.  Those who use the Initiating style strive to complete projects and then seek new opportunities. They learn primarily through Acting and Experiencing (feeling), paying the least attention to Analyzing. They enjoy achieving goals and involving themselves in new and challenging experiences. Their tendency may be to act on intuitive "gut" feelings rather than on logical analysis. In solving problems, individuals who prefer and Initiating style rely heavily on other people for information than on their own technical analysis.  Those who prefer the Initiating style think on their feet, back a hunch, network and influence. They are outgoing, spontaneous, and able to shrug off losses or "failure" in favor of of trying again. If someone overuses the initiating style, she* dreads the words "status q...