Visual Thinking An Idiots Guide Mathew T

The Tower of Babel - A podcast for Visual thinkers .

Einstein

The premise of this podcast is that sheer inventiveness comes at a cost , The very thing that made Einstein a genius in his field, made him a less than ideal student. But Is it fair to extrapolate from Einstein to children and adults today !

... Einstein and the many many millions like him are not forged by adversity they are crushed by it ! . Aggressive Screening weeds out all our original thinkers . Insist on maintaining rigorous standards and you risk throwing the baby out with the bath water .

Treating everybody the same is not the same as treating everybody fairly . We have a name for a system like that . Communism . We know the outcomes lower productivity , lower levels of innovation , agency capture and systemic corruption .

The politics of innovation . Does adversity drive innovation and is treating everybody the same . the same as treating everybody fairly .

Featuring stories about Henry Ford , Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy , Huxley and Bishop Sam Wilberforce with a cameo from Edison , Marconi , Faraday and the remarkable Richard Fyneman and of course Einstein .

A long the way we reference Ideo consultants to fortune 500 companies * Moneyball The art of winning an unfair game *An Inconvenient Truth the 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming and Superforecasting by the influential author and Researcher Philip Tetlock . Neither Adam Grant Originals or Ray Dalio founder of Bridgewater associates , author of Principles made into this particular episode .

Sounds great doesn't it , if only it wasn't for ,,,,

By law food packaging comes with a warning may contain nuts , podcasts have no such warning but if they did this weeks podcast warning would be - may contain disruptive insights and possibly nuts . If you have a short attention span then feel free to fast forward to the section on Mozart timestamp [16.25] .


In Visionaries we want to Dispel the myth that visual thinking belongs only to artists and sketch noters . There is nothing wrong with sketch noting, graphical recording mind mapping but it is just one tool in the toolbox . We are barely scratching the surface .

Inspiration hogs .

Over the next 20 minutes I am going to spin you through a hands on and Practical look at visionaries Tesla , Faraday , Einstein and Mozart and the visual thinking tools they deployed .

In this highly visual podcast . We start by addressing possible differences in brain architecture. Typically the right hemisphere is larger amongst dyslexia and add where there is a 40 percent co morbidity and high functioning autism spectrum disorders . Ask 100 people to compile a list of the people that have changed our world , about half maybe more will belong to this cohort . As a society we are so busy quantifying what is wrong with this cohort we have forgotten to look up .

Please Note : At Only 20 minutes typically each podcast involves 2 weeks of research another week in production and post production . [the grandfather time travel paradox - If I was a better speaker then yes sure it would take less time but if that was the case this podcast wouldn't exist in the first place ]. This weeks podcast has been compressed to about 10 days , substance over style , nobody is listening anyway -:) a joke that works on so many different levels .

The origin story / pitch for the digital training company based near the world famous Stratford Upon Avon , Recorded live and unscripted . If i stumble , If I falter forgive me . If I was good at this sort of thing then I would be good at this sort of thing . If only there was a pool of talent near by I could draw upon :-)