What is Analogical Thinking?

What is Analogical Thinking? and How is it beneficial?

      1.Allows us to experience the interconnectedness of ideas

      2.Great way to learn difficult concepts more effectively
      - we as learners, cannot just learn isolated facts the way they're presented to us and be expected to learn or use that BUT we have to construct our own learning by making association to other things, by relating things that is important to us, bridging and restructuring in our heads.
 
      3. A skill- get better with practice

      4. Enhances creative output
     - we use analogies, relate a subject matter to other things that we are familiar with because it motivates us as it is something that we are interested about.