If you’re about to embark on a new project or need to bring some fresh energy to one that’s already in progress, I’ve got an activity for you: draw a …
Build Your Body of Work
As visual thinkers, what we do is create artifacts that support our thinking, our learning, and our ability to communicate with others. The visual artifacts that you create can take …
Drawing Stick Figures Playing Baseball
I recently made a serious mistake that I need to apologize for: in my visual summary of the book Make it Stick I incorrectly drew a baseball player winding up …
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning – A Visual Summary
In their book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, authors Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel lay out the science-based practices that lead …
Bored? Try drawing these people.
Learning how to draw people is one of the more challenging aspects of visual note-taking. In this video I share a practice activity using a resource from Eva-Lotta Lamm called …
Don’t Get Good at Drawing
In my experience, sketching out ideas is a gateway to better thinking and better learning. Even though drawing is a part of that process, the effort to get good at …
Cyclical Learning
The journey toward learning a new skill or becoming knowledgable in a particular field is rarely one-way trip. It’s more like a town that you enjoy passing through on a …
The Weight of Digital Tools
Digital tools bring with them both advantages and disadvantages. In this video I explore a few of the ways that the weight of digital tools have impacted my life and …
The End-of-History Illusion
How much of your planning for the future depends on you being right about what you think you want? Here’s the thing: your goals and desires will change over time. …
Overconfidence: How Your Mind is Rigged Against You
You know when you go to a carnival and you see one of the games and you’re like “I could do that! I could knock over those milk bottles. I …