clipped from: www.lifehack.org   

Who do you think could create a better story on the spot: you or Shakespeare? Ignoring the fact that good ol’ Bill has been dead for some time, in his life he had a lot of practice creating metaphors. All of that practice helps him as a storyteller.

Similarly, if you want to use metaphors to cut down your studying time, you have to practice. You have to make finding metaphors to lock in ideas a habit. If you are curious about building storytelling techniques into your studying I recommend taking on a short and simple 2-week challenge when you start hitting the books again:

  • Once a day, every day, for the next two weeks, pick at least one idea, formula or concept from your studies.
  • Write out that idea on paper and break it down until you can see it in front of you.
  • Then time yourself to come up with as many possible metaphors for describing the idea or part of it in the next 3 minutes.
    • When metaphors happen automatically, any ideas you encounter become easy to remember.