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Many metaphors of metamorphosis


As far as metaphors for change go, this is a powerful one. However, when we think about the future and the change we might want to make, the natural world provides all sorts of models and lessons.

“What about the vile cockroach or the vile earwax?” speak Jessica Ware, associate curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, rolled his eyes. (Or Imbler’s gum leaf skeleton.) According to some estimatesaround 60 percent of all animals go through what scientists call Comprehensive metabolism—a fancy word for transforming your whole body like butterflies. ladybug, beetles, bees, lace wingsand flies all entwined themselves and underwent an extraordinary transformation. “You know, there are a lot of interesting insects out there, but they don’t have newspapers, they don’t have greeting cards. It’s all butterflies, butterflies, butterflies,” Ware said.

The natural world is filled with stories of transformation, cooperation, and change. Stories that we can all learn from.

Some sea slugs, for example, eat algae and actually extract chloroplasts from that algae and use it to be able to photosynthesize itself. Othersea slugs eat poisonous sponges store that poison in their body to use as a defense mechanism. For Spade, this involves the idea that a team can share different skill sets and attributes with each other. “We can all upskill, and we can take on the most exciting skills that different people on the team have to offer.” For Dean, it’s a reminder that “each of us is a tiny part of something so big.”

For Liz Neeley, a science communicator and company founder titularit was a giant, the fish looks stupid provides a metaphor for change. She pointed to the mola mola—also known as the giant sunfish. And giant is no exaggeration – when they are mature, these fish can weigh more than 4,000 pounds. But they don’t start such big life. When they were born, they were 3 mm long—about half the length of a grain of rice. During its lifetime, mola mola increases body mass by 60 million times. And that changes almost everything. “Your ability to perceive your environment, the things you find scary, even how much effort you have to move through the water,” says Neeley. “For that size, water is very heavy, dense and porous. You are swimming through the syrup.

So that giant, car-sized fish is swimming across the ocean with some vague idea of ​​how small and vulnerable it is to swimming against the dung. Neeley said: ‘I don’t know my exact size as a fish. “But I hope I can continue to build the habit of revisiting the core assumptions I have about myself in the world and what is a threat to me and how I overcame it.”

I bring up all of this because, basically, my podcast, Front flash, is about change. How does one change the future? How do we get the tomorrows we want, not the days we don’t? And a core part of that question has to do with how insects melt into slime. Do we have to completely dissolve ourselves and our world to achieve the future we want? Do we have to burn it all down, destroy it all, and rebuild from that melted space? Or can we change gradually, incrementally, like hermit crabs, upgrading gradually as we progress?

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