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Weird. This explains a lot of my abilities much better than hightened IQ or something like that. The test, which basically asks you multiple versions of "how cl
by Roritharr 11y ago
Weird. This explains a lot of my abilities much better than hightened IQ or something like that. The test, which basically asks you multiple versions of "how clear can you picture X", told me I'm in the top 20% of people with Hyperphantasia, although I might misjudge my experience greatly.
Being able to quickly and accurately create mental models is essential to most of my workflows.
Now I really regret not having learned drawing.
- theoh 11y agoJust learn now. But be aware that observational drawing is a different skill than illustrating your "phantasy" mental images. In the second category, the engineer Elmer Sperry apparently had a serious facility for visualizing machinery, and would hold out a pen and paper to "just draw a line around it". It's mentioned in Eugene Ferguson's book Engineering and the Mind's Eye: https://books.google.ie/books?id=WcqaKE_Eg1IC&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.ie/books?id=WcqaKE_Eg1IC&pg=PA51#v=onep...