So someone suggests a topic. Let’s call it . It can be an object or a subject. Or a verb. Or something else. Or some loose association. Or maybe, even, it’s a part of a whole. Or maybe its the whole of a part.
“How can I apply this concept to ___ ?”
“How can I apply ___ to this concept?”
Let’s call ___ … whatever you are thinking about now. It’s quite possible to drawn an association between whatever your current thought is, and some object, idea, concept.
Go for it