SHOW BUT DON’T TELL: THE ART OF COVERT FRAMING
I’m an avid reader of fiction.
“[A] more subtle but perhaps ultimately more effective group of strategies is to use indirect framing”—Josef Pallas
I’m an avid reader of fiction. I learned a lot from reading it and reading about it. One of the lessons that I learned, which’s becoming sort of a cliché, is one that says: Show but don’t tell. That is, setting up the situation, drawing the picture, and coloring descriptions that the reader concludes from the desired feeling or understanding is much more powerful than just feeding it directly.
In the same sense, I noticed a some of my colleagues deliver their content in a masterful and artistic way. Instead of directly telling the trainees about the frames they create a context that implicitly sets the frame.