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Exercise Your Figures > Exercise 16: Mirror Image

Word Hero Chapter Two

The whole premise of the pith method is based on a mirror image. Can you spot it? (OK, it's easy: I put both sides of the figurative mirror in italic on page 17.) The mirror image serves me as an illustration: the figure preceded the thought.

I love the mirror image for its ability to show things in reverse. It's a great mind-opening exercise. Take a political opinion and see if you can't mirror-image it. Extra points if it's an opinion you yourself hold, and if your figure upends that opinion.

May 31, 2011 | Registered CommenterJay