To boot, structures of shame, avoidance and control run the risk of creating a prison of their own.
The companies and organizations that specialize in this kind of program run the gamut from structured boot camps with the most modern equipment to venerable hippies teaching the oneness of nature.
As I walked atop the structure, my boot got caught in a hole.
It is also like a boot camp for story structure, which is perhaps why it has attracted some of the most respected writers of the 21st century, including Salman Rushdie, Nathan Englander, Neil Gaiman, Annie Proulx and the late George Plimpton.
Now one group has turned this conventional wisdom on its head: They describe in the current issue of the journal Animal Behavior an ant species that has the brains to navigate by the sun and an advanced social structure to boot.
For those craving structure, Stray Boots is a scavenger hunt for mobile devices.
"For me shopping is recreation," said Mr. Michael, who was dressed in a pleat-front black linen shirt from Structure and boot-cut pants.
I am surprised these issues didn't surface during Belief week, but therein is the excellence of how James Mellon has structured "Mental Muscle" Boot Camp.
The Boot Room tradition became a structure that allowed the crown to be passed on, from Shankly to Bob Paisley to Joe Fagan, aided by the fact that Paisley had so little desire for public acclamation: no personality cult could ever have grown up around him.
It's a carefully structured album to boot: the segue from Be Yourself, constructed from a concerned phone message from Ocean's mother, into Solo, an intensely affecting song about drugged paralysis, is just the most obvious example.
