Seth's Blog : Circus peanuts don't contain nuts

This is obvious. Circus peanuts don’t have nuts, legumes or anything else that resembles a nut.

They’re a metaphor. Or perhaps a simile, it depends on your level of pedantry.

And yet, many people have a hard time with metaphor. Metaphor, not memorization, is the heart of learning.

If you understand A, and you see that B is like A but a little different, now you understand B.

Memorization is brittle. Metaphor scales.

Metaphor helps us create the next thing and find our footing when confronted when the new.

I believe that understanding metaphor is a skill. We can get better at it.

Find some circus peanuts you don’t understand and decode them.

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