Building the Thought Literacy Framework: An Open Invitation

I created thought literacy because I saw a gap: we have skills for emotions, finances, time management and essentially everything else except the thing that drives them all, our thoughts.

We’re never taught how our own minds work and it’s showing in the world around us: the mental health crisis, people struggling with adaptability and tech changes, susceptibility to red pill content, echo chambers, loneliness, people voting against their own interests, and low success in therapy.

No Longer Left to Chance

Thought literacy is founded on the core idea that knowing how your mind works is a fundamental human right. Its guiding principles are clarity, accessibility, compassion, responsibility, and flexibility. And it rests on two core elements: thought awareness and thought management.

Within those elements, it’s important to build a framework of concepts that are need-to-know and will help learners get a holistic understanding of their thoughts and thought processes so they can learn to build thought literacy, no longer leaving their thoughts and mental wellness to chance.

The Living Framework

To make the thought literacy framework the best it can be, and to make sure learners are getting a holistic understanding of thoughts, it is important to take a collaborative approach and leverage diverse expertise and perspectives.

This looks like a “living library,” so to say, of concepts that are suggested, discussed, and potentially integrated into the framework.

How It Works

This Google Sheet includes the foundational concepts for the thought literacy framework. Experts from different fields (psychology, philosophy, intervention specialists, etc.) are invited to give feedback on these concepts and propose additional concepts they think need to be included.

This sheet is a living document. Thought literacy is designed to be adaptive, and the concepts included in thought literacy will grow and shift to represent the evolving human experience.

Concepts integrated into the framework are then outlined in a definition post and added to the thoughtliteracy.org website for public view.

Please Join Us

Want to contribute to the thought literacy framework? I’m so happy to have you here! Please note that while I am reaching out to experts in certain fields, I also see the potential in perspectives from non-experts, so even if you aren’t an expert please reach out.