**Pattern Name:** Variabilization
**Introduction:** Only dead things don't change. Living things change. We can bring language and thought to life by wisely choosing the changeable aspects of things we talk and think about.
**Illustration:** Home-> Aliveness of Home
**CONTEXT:**
**Initial Situation:**
**PROBLEM:**
Thinking and talking with changeless (static) things is misleading and hampers creative change—invention and discovery.
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**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
Transform nouns into variables (noun phrases with interesting adjectives). Make diagrams of the causes and effects of these varying nouns. Extend, with others. (Cave Drawing).
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**CONNECTED PATTERNS:** **Supported Patterns:** **Supporting Patterns:**
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