In his book The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel shares timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness. In the video above and blog post below I’d like to share with …
Visual Thinking Structures: Outside Inspiration
In a recent video I identified the two primary questions that we ask and answer as visual thinkers: In my experience, the second question is harder to answer than the …
Two Important Questions for Visual Thinkers
Visual thinking boils down to two questions: What are the pieces? How do they fit together? In this video I reflect on those questions while telling you about an episode …
Visual Thinking Warmup
When you first enter the world of visual thinking, your primary task is to get comfortable making marks that aren’t just letters as you start to think about how to …
What flavors are you bringing to your work?
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 …