Metaphors and Beyond

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...

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.

Football is a great American analogy.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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