Shortcut : How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

from JanesList

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book was, broadly, about analogies and their place in our world and our ways of thinking. It made good use of analogies throughout. Sometimes it seemed too broad to me, kind of an "all is analogy" approach, but it was interesting to s...

from mposey82

In the last decade or so there has been a proliferation of popular non-fiction books discussing naturalistic decision making. Many came from a behavioral economics background for instance see "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely or "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Taleb. Other books might more ...

from knightlight777

A thought provoking book by a former speech writer for President Clinton, John Pollack. The book focuses on and examines the central theme of the powers and pitfalls of using analogy to drive home a point. Pollack uses many examples of recent and distant history where proper usage of powerful ana...

from Shadow123

This book has a lot of great things in it, and a lot of great information. But it suffers greatly from a lack of organizational structure. So you end up reading a lot of meandering anecdotes about analogies without a lot of cohesion and what feels like no greater purpose. I did read an Advanced R...

from The_Froo

The strongest aspect of this book is that John Pollack identifies five characteristics of a successful analogy and highlights ways in which particular analogies have them (or don't). The most interesting aspect is the way that Pollack stretches analogy to really refer to analogical thinking, basi...