[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fnPnyejnXTzJB3MTyg8Sw-i-j6vbMNs00JzA7XqfCqAs":3,"$fjXLveulRyMJDwjdKeJbxc7FOvj7QtPoHzsby2MWCB0k":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},140414,"James Geary","J",30,null,"james-geary",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":78},[14,22,28,35,41,47,54,60,66,72],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":9},3711390,"Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":9},3711371,"Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":9},3104702,"Comparing your beloved to a red, red rose might be fine if you’re writing a poem, but these thinkers believed more exact language was needed to express the “truth”-a term, by the way, distilled from Icelandic, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon, and other non-English words meaning “believed” rather than certain.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":9},3104700,"Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us – poets and non-poets alike – to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":42,"quote_text":43,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":44,"source":45,"quote_tag":46,"commentary":9},3104697,"For life is short and the art of writing books is very, very long.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":48,"quote_text":49,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":50,"source":51,"quote_tag":52,"commentary":53},3104696,"The theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was such a lauded lecturer in large part because, like Hui Tzu, he was skilled in finding the right analogies to illustrate his explanations of extremely abstract-and extremely difficult-concepts. He once compared a drop of water magnified 2,000 times to “a kind of teeming... like a crowd at a football game as seen from a very great distance.” That description has all the precision of good physics and good poetry.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis quote, likely from James Geary's book \"I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World,\" reflects the author's fascination with the intersection of science and art. Geary, a journalist and historian, was likely drawn to the work of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, during the late 20th century, when science and poetry were increasingly seen as complementary ways of understanding the world.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe quote reveals a profound paradox at the heart of effective communication: that precision and clarity are not mutually exclusive with creativity and imagination. Feynman's ability to find the right analogies to explain complex concepts, as Geary notes, is a testament to the power of metaphor in bridging the gap between seemingly disparate domains of knowledge.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset in your own work, try to approach complex problems by seeking out novel analogies and metaphors that can help illuminate the underlying structure of the issue. By doing so, you can tap into the same creative potential that Feynman and other great communicators have harnessed to convey their ideas with precision and impact.",{"id":55,"quote_text":56,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":57,"source":58,"quote_tag":59,"commentary":9},3104687,"In Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge, Edelman theorizes that the human brain’s astonishing interconnectivity produces consciousness and, because of the astronomical number of associations our brains are capable of making, pattern recognition is the basis not just for metaphorical thinking but for all thinking.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":61,"quote_text":62,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":9},3104680,"Few people may be consciously aware of the etymological origins of common words and phrases, but the essential metaphor-making process of comparing the unknown with the known is still vital and ongoing. This process is the way meaning was, is, and ever shall be made.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":9},3104673,"These experiments demonstrate the conceptual synesthesia connecting our ideas of the concrete experience of space and the abstract experience of time. Our concept of physical motion through space is scaffolded onto our concept of chronological motion through time. Experiencing one-indeed, merely thinking about one-influences our experience of and thoughts about the other, just as the theory of embodied cognition suggests.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":31,"has_image":18,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":9},3104666,"Why should jokes and metaphors give such pleasure? Because we can’t stand very much ambiguity. Cognitive dissonance makes us uneasy, and for good reason-survival depends on making the world as predictable as possible. So when we figure something out, when we impose order on what seems chaotic, we heave a psychological sigh of relief.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":79,"totalPages":80,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":81},1,3,10]