Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
There is a striking uniformity in the way creative people-artists, writers, mathemati-cians, scientists, and philosophers-speak about the process of production and problem solving. Ghiselin (1952) has collected into one volume a number of essays on the creative pro-cess by a variety of creative workers from Poincare to Picasso. As Ghiselin accurate... See more
Richard E. Nisbett • Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
When Olmstead crafted Central Park, what do you think he was optimizing for? Which metric led to Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight? What data brought the iPhone into this world? The answer is not numerical. It’s all about the feelings, opinions, experiences, and ideas of the maker themself. The great Georgia O’Keefe put it this way: "I have things in my hea... See more
The Browser Company • Optimizing for Feelings
now have a language for describing what each person sees, clarifying the differences, and building more choices (not answers) into your thinking.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
The human mind perceives, forms concepts, learns, makes judgements, feels emotions, uses language, remembers, invents, dreams, desires. How can so much complexity be captured in a single image? Clearly, some aspects of mental life must be prioritised at the expense of others. But which ones? And after those choices have been made, does the 'picture
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