Steve Jobs Secrets: The Technique For Forming Good Analogies To Solve Problems
How to form good analogies to solve all kinds of problems.
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty, because they didn’t really do it. They just saw something.” — Steve Jobs
In late September 1507, a curious experiment went awry. John Damian, an alchemist residing at the court of the Scottish king decided to fly off from Stirling Castle.
After having constructed wings made of feathers, Damian leapt off of the castle walls. To his great surprise, and despite flapping his arms as hard as he could, he fell straight to the ground. Luckily, this caused only a few broken bones. The man nicknamed “the leech” lived to see another day.
Damian later excused this failure by stating that it was the type of feathers that he used. Unwittingly, he had used chicken feathers, and everyone knows that chickens don’t fly. Had he constructed his contraption with the feathers of an eagle, he would have soared high up into the sky just like that majestic bird.
