Lesson I Learned From David Wood

Xarah Dax Feb 19, 2015 · 2 min read

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Have you ever heard or read an outlandish statement and while at once you would question it you also know that some people believe it and take litterly?

I watched the second module of the Top Producer Formula today while drinking a nutribullet juice.

David Wood was explaining frames. I’ve heard about frames before but today I think I start understanding.

Frames

Here’s the story he told about frames.

There is a fish in your frame. All you see is a fish.

Nice. I actually took this pic under water infront of Fihalohi, a Maldivian island.

But is there more to the fish?

If you make the frame bigger, you now see a bigger fish chasing the smaller fish. Now we have almost a story.

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Make the frame bigger and you see a shark following the big fish who is chasing the small fish.

Is this the whole story?

Make the frame even bigger.

Now you see a fishing boat following the shark who chases the big fish who chases the small fish.

Now, we probably have the whole story.

You can lose 40 pounds with a bacon diet

The lesson I learned is, sometimes just one out of context sentence or situation is never the whole story.

This afternoon I went to get my feet massaged and remove the interference from the scars (broken foot, tattoo, tongue and a few more) and we were chatting.

For some reason we ended up talking about diets.

Margret told me about this guy who lost 40 pounds with a bacon diet.

Good thing that frame story was still fresh in my mind.

I told her that’s only the small frame we see here. Let’s make it bigger.

How big was the guy when he started with this “diet”? She didn’t know, but let’s say he was 300 pounds. He lost only 40 kilos? Or, of course he lost 40 pounds! His body was taking what it needed to sustain itself.

Just for the fun of it, let’s make that frame bigger.

How healthy is he now? Did he get osteoporosis? Did some of his organs give out? Is he still alive?

I googled but couldn’t find anything about this guy and his crazy bacon diet. I hope she’ll text me back soon. Apparently this was a famous singer, so with a name I should find something.

CONCLUSION

Don’t believe outlandish statements. Think them through. Ask questions. Make the frame bigger. Get the whole story or as much as possible.

Of course there are always people who hear a statement like the above mentioned bacon diet and do it too. Then they die or get really ill and wonder what happened. That’s the danger of those unquestioned statements – but then as headlines they sell newspapers… 🙂

After making the frame bigger, would you want to do a bacon diet?