That’s odd. When I googled “frame control” (prior to my comment) the first result was about programming, the second was this post, and the third was a 14-point article in which most of the illustrative examples were about ways of responding to social bullying, dominance displays, or manipulation of various sorts. That is, frame control as reaction to social maneuvering by others.
That’s also fairly consistent with things I’ve previously read, that establish the very first rule of frame control as not letting others trick, trap, or threaten you out of your intended frame for an interaction. And while some works do treat frame control as a zero sum game, the core message of most things I’ve read have been about internal frame defense and non-zero sum games.
For example, one book (literally entitled “Frame Control”) notes many times that “basing the strength of your frame on the weakness of others is not a good strategy” and provides quite a lot of exercises that are aimed at changing one’s internal beliefs and interpretation of situations, with frequent examples roughly of the form, “don’t try to argue, fight, trick, persuade, etc. people—instead just accept what people say and hold to your opinion, instead of being emotionally dependent on others agreeing with you”.
The type of “frame control” described in this post seems rather the opposite of that!
That’s odd. When I googled “frame control” (prior to my comment) the first result was about programming, the second was this post, and the third was a 14-point article in which most of the illustrative examples were about ways of responding to social bullying, dominance displays, or manipulation of various sorts. That is, frame control as reaction to social maneuvering by others.
That’s also fairly consistent with things I’ve previously read, that establish the very first rule of frame control as not letting others trick, trap, or threaten you out of your intended frame for an interaction. And while some works do treat frame control as a zero sum game, the core message of most things I’ve read have been about internal frame defense and non-zero sum games.
For example, one book (literally entitled “Frame Control”) notes many times that “basing the strength of your frame on the weakness of others is not a good strategy” and provides quite a lot of exercises that are aimed at changing one’s internal beliefs and interpretation of situations, with frequent examples roughly of the form, “don’t try to argue, fight, trick, persuade, etc. people—instead just accept what people say and hold to your opinion, instead of being emotionally dependent on others agreeing with you”.
The type of “frame control” described in this post seems rather the opposite of that!