What are your favourite analogies for explaining difficult or complex concepts? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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Explain any one particular complex topic using an analogy you found interesting or easily understandable.

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[-] platypuspup@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I tell my students that going to a challenging class and not participating is like going to the gym and watching people work out. It is not only fairly useless to your goal of improving yourself, it creeps out everyone else and makes it feel like an unsafe place to try new things and make mistakes.

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