A PATHWAY TO IDEA GENERATION

An analogy is a device that offers you a perspective from another vantage point, albeit a parallel one.

It allows you to explain yourself from a different angle. An analogy allows your audience to relate to your point of view when something obscure becomes understandable because you peg it to a more common experience.

It is a whole web of metaphors in which a likeness is drawn through parallel structure, as describing the atomic structure in terms of a simple solar system, or a complicated war in terms of a football game.

An analogy is usually used when we are trying to explain something complex and use something familiar as an example.

(“You can imagine an atom as being like our solar system. The nucleus is the sun and the electrons are the planets orbiting round it.”)

Now on to an analogy technique in the Next Post.

[Excerpted from the 'Ideas on Ideas' edition of The Braindancer Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]