James Geary
James Geary
James Gearyis an American-born writer, former Europe editor of Time and deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. In this role he is also editor of Nieman Reports, oversees other Nieman print and online publications and manages a range of duties related to the Nieman Fellowship program and the foundation's journalism outreach efforts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
thinking world way
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
believe firsts aphorism
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
thinking secret six
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.
thinking discovery together
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,