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I first heard about “thinking in pictures” from Dr Temple Grandin, who is autistic and associates it with autism. Anyway, it’s also how she thinks and appears t
by lll-o-lll 1y ago
I first heard about “thinking in pictures” from Dr Temple Grandin, who is autistic and associates it with autism. Anyway, it’s also how she thinks and appears to be a super power when it comes to designing feed lots. https://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html https://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html
I imagine you also struggled with algebra? Being a non-visual abstraction.
- bregma 1y agoAlgebra is very visual. Picture the variables and parentheses and constants just moving around, like a choreographed dance. Same with calculus, picturing the curves and areas and surfaces, until you start hitting more than 3 dimensions.
- quacked 1y agoThanks for the link! Actually, I did struggle with algebra, and also calculus and differential equations. As with most on this site, I fell into an "advanced"/"gifted" cohort, but I was always down at the bottom of the class. I excelled (relative to my peers, not to truly gifted people) at linear algebra, statistics, systems engineering, and combinatorics.
- JohnMakin 1y agoI think in images and abstractions and algebra/math came very easy to me. I couldn't really describe to someone how it looks in my head though.