Posts Tagged ‘attention’

How to Improve Personal Performance through Visualization – Doodle!

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Doodle Doodle Doo!

Image courtesy: http://www.oricus.com

TIME verifies that doodling is an effective medium of improving performance through visualization. Doodlers are now officially better people with better attention spans. Here is the TIME article giving a stamp of authority.

TIME article:

A lot of people hate doodlers, those who idly scribble during meetings (or classes or trials or whatever). Most people also hate that other closely related species: the fidgeter, who spins pens or reorders papers or plays with his phone during meetings. (I stand guilty as charged. On occasion, I have also been known to whisper.) We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: “I’m sorry, are we bothering you?” How droll. But the underlying message is clear: Pay attention.

Read the full article here [Link to Time Article].

We @ Pictualize support the act of Doodling to create a better world! ;)

Thinking Visually

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Discovered this extremely powerful presentation about “Thinking Visually“.

Highlights some crucial aspects of thinking visually in 4 “M”s:

  • Metaphor
  • Model
  • Mindmap &
  • Manifest

as well as 6 steps to Thinking Visually:

  • Empathize – See the world as a child – Observe, Ask & Explore
  • Memorize – Commit thoughts to memory
  • Analyze – Take a step back
  • Synthesize – Filter signal from noise
  • Visualize – See it, then do it
  • Materialize – Make it tangible, make it stick
    • The 4C’s of Community
      • Content
      • Context
      • Connectivity
      • Continuity

Why does Visual Communication matter?

  • Getting attention quickly
  • Help to learn faster & more effectively
  • Let people do their own thinking
  • Helps to tell stories