Metaphors and Beyond

Herein lies the trail of many a non-literal comparison . . . Advance at your own risk.

[theinfernaldevicestrilogy]

I wanted a love as deep as the 

                                      ocean

                                                  but all you gave me was a drop of 

                                                                                                   rain.

[metaphorsandbeyond]

Super liquid proportion contrast; thanks!

[metaphorsandbeyond]

Are you juggling rubber balls or glass balls? - Thought Leadership Leverage

Can you juggle one ball?

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Seth's Blog: A drop in the bucket

When you buy a glass of wine at a nice restaurant, it doesn't come in a beer stein. If it did, the 4 ounces would be dwarfed by the glass and you'd feel like your host was ungenerous. Closets, it...

Analogies and the secret to success and happiness. Thanks Seth!

[goodideaexchange]

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell (h/t Cameron Morrissey)

Duct tape squad??!  Front and center!

[metaphorsandbeyond]

How Students Make Progress in Learning

When we think and talk about learning, the metaphors we use matter. The language we employ when we describe how learning works can illuminate the process, allowing us to make accurate judgments and predictions—or it can lead us astray, setting up false expectations and giving us a misleading impression of what’s going on.

Can we still slide down the banister?

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George Takei's New Trump Takedown Is Going Crazy on Facebook

Football is a great American analogy.

Where’s Vince L. when you need him?  Nice work George Takei!

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Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

Goin’ with the flow! (Stay away from low-flow, or other flow restrictors!)

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Story Behind Newton’s Famous Metaphor for How Knowledge Progresses

How hubris and humility conspired in illuminating the nature of creativity.

Don’t take a step backward!

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Seth's Blog: All mirrors are broken

It's impossible to see yourself as others do. Not merely because the medium is imperfect, but, when it comes to ourselves, we process what we see differently than everyone else in the world does. We make this mistake with physical...

Mirror on the wall (driveway, hallway, runway, highway, way . . .) who knows who I am at all?

[nebbiaovunque]

[metaphorsandbeyond]

Super visual metaphor! Now where’s that Boston sharpener, or DTrump for that matter?

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Seth's Blog: Add engines until airborne

That's certainly one way to get through a thorny problem. The most direct way to get a jet to fly is to add bigger engines. And the easiest way to gain attention is to run more ads, or yell more...

Wings, wings, wings; has anyone alerted Sir Paul?

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

the sycamore of loneliness they call it daydreams while the ax is still afraid of being alone

Frank Stanford, the opening lines to “nobody is going to touch me,” What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2015)

Most have no ax to grind with that!

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Seth's Blog: Metaphors aren't true

But they're useful. That's why professionals use them to teach, to learn and to understand. A metaphor takes what we know and uses it as a lever to understand something else. And the only way we can do that is...

Whew!  Glad Seth has seen the light.

[goodideaexchange]

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

Dennis and Wendy Mannering  (via goodideaexchange)

Only if the CDC is busy working on a vaccine.

[costanzawisdom]

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Ah, at times the best comparisons are implied!

[politico]

Our candidates are running for the nomination of the Republican Party. They’re trying out for our team. No one is forcing them to wear our jersey. We expect our candidates to support our party and our eventual nominee.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus

Read more here

(via politico)

Remind us, when’s the trading deadline?

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Alligator Arms: It's What You Do - GEICO

Find out what happens when someone with literal alligator arms tries to pick up the check. Subscribe to the GEICO channel and get updates automatically! http...

Ah, the short-arm ploy.