Choose Your Words with Metaphors & expressions

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Metaphors are as old as Aristotle and as modern as the internet. Presidents use them to persuade (Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand) and start wars (the domino theory for Vietnam). Scientists use them to explain phenomena (the atom as a universe). Poets use them imaginatively (Juliet is the sun). Wall Street uses them to describe investors (bulls, bears). And people in business, like Iacocca, use them as the ultimate persuasion tool.

Metaphors and nouns, complimented with adjectives (expressions) are a timeless storytelling element.

Beliefs

  • Limiting
  • Self-reinforcing

Failure

  • Colossal

Fear

  • is the enemy of joy

Honesty

  • Courageous

Intentions

  • Pure
  • Strong
  • Weak

Soul

  • Battered
  • Starving

torture

  • Self-induced