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“When words don't work, thinking doesn't work. Wonderful as words are, they cannot alone detect, describe, and defuse the multifaceted problems of today. That's bad, becasue words have become our default thinking tool. Even worse, for most of us words are our *only* thinking tool. We need a new tool.”
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“Originally represented as the sun apassing over a valley, "yin" literally translated as "shady place" and described the cool area in the mountain's shadow, while "yang" translated as "sunny place" and described the warm valley below. / Most famously represented by the "tajitu" symbol (or "the diagram of ulitmate power"), yin and yang are simply the most vivid description of a truth we all know yet all too often forget: For any idea to be effective, it must include and compensate for its opposite.”
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To solve the problems of today, we need to see and hear, read and look, write and draw. And when we do—when we remember how to think verbally and visually—that’s when we’ll understand the power of Vivid Thinking.
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Pictures are the part of thinking that provides us with guidance and direction. It’s the “big picture” that lets us see where we’re going. Pictures aren’t training wheels; pictures are the front wheel.
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To be useful, any map must show three things: where we are now (in enough detail to decide whether that’s a good place for us to stay), a better place to go (in enough detail to decide whether that place really does look more inviting), and a clearly marked path between the two (in enough detail to make sure we won’t get lost along the way).
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We don’t need more words. We need more ideas.
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The books that teach us stuff best are those that reach out to both our verbal and visual minds.
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With an initial portrait drawn, we can use visual grammar to expand our idea vividly in any direction.)
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When the depth of detail forced upon us kills our ability to comprehend, we end up receiving negative knowledge—the more we hear, the less we know.
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What blah-blah-blah really means is that we’ve become so enamored of our words that we’ve fooled ourselves into believing we understand things better than we actually do.
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That’s the real problem we face today: too many words with too little meaning coming at us too fast.
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A useful map shows us three things: our present location, a path, and a destination.
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We think that thinking means stringing words together in a meaningful way.
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 330
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- The TRIZ Journal: As described on p. 259, Genrich Altshuller was a Soviet engineer who distilled a list of "forty principles for discovering new ideas" named TRIZ. This is the website, referenced in the book, that describes these patterns.
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