The ever eclectic and enlightening Brain Pickings muses on the associational abilities of children, via a chapter of I Is an Other—The Magic of Metaphor: What Children’s Minds Teach Us about the Evolution of the Imagination, wherein this aphorism is to be found:
Children help us to mediate between the ideal and the real. —Juliet Kinchin
In this piece from Forbes, communication coach Carmine Gallo explains how Steve Jobs, as depicted in the new biopic ‘Jobs’, learned how to describe the novelty of the personal computer using metaphors and analogies: “I told [director Joshua Michael] Stern that I believe the previous scene was pivotal because it reflected how Jobs ultimately learned to be a world-class communicator—Jobs was tapping into the power of metaphor and analogies to refine and articulate his ideas.” Read the full article here.