The Purpose of a Metaphor

somebody told me the way that works the space station so they need tools up there sometimes so a guy an astronaut needed a wrench okay so you didn't have the wrench you need to send the wrench now in the old days meaning even a few years ago you had the wait a long time before there's another mission going up to the space station to bring up the wrench nowadays what do they do they do a 3d scan of the wrench down in Mission Control in Houston or wherever it is okay they scan the wrench and then the email so the wrench becomes a bunch of zeros and ones it becomes a digital file and the email it's just like you know if I were to email you and we're in the same room my email goes to space and then comes back down to you this is even faster than that because he's standing the email the space and it stays it at Space Station so they just email him the file the 3d scan of the wrench and then he gets the email and he presses print and a 3d printer prints Direction now he has the wrench that he needs up there in the space station okay but watch what happens if I wanted let's say I'm a real stickler I have an idea and it's a really good idea it's important idea and it's so important that I refuse to budge from it I'm gonna talk about it and talk about it and talk about it and talk about it even though it's alienating you because you don't relate to it that's like me saying I want my wrench to remain a wrench yeah but if your wrench remains a wrench you can't get it to the guy in the space station but if you allow the wrench to become a non wrench you allow it to become zeros and once you allow it to become that attachment that file that's sent by email then at the other end eventually becomes a wrench again so if I allow myself and a lot of it's about letting go a lot of effective communication is about relinquish in control I know what I want to say but if I force it you're not gonna hear it so I let go of what I really want to talk about I moved to something more familiar and then I let go and now you get the idea that I wanted to tell you all along it's like getting you the wrench by allowing the wrench to be a non wrench in the interim face [Music]