Imagine trying to explain a complex idea to your team, only to be met with blank stares and confusion. We’ve all been there, struggling to bridge the gap between our thoughts and others’ understanding ...

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People who don’t think visually often have a hard time imagining the mental lives of those who do. By thinking, I mean conscious planning, problem-solving, imagining, and reminiscing. Most mental ...

How would you rate your problem-solving skills in running your business? Your answer to this question is important. Many successful entrepreneurs have developed a keen sense for what it takes to ...

Arts and science are sometimes thought to be on opposite ends of the spectrum of creativity. However, the Visual Thinking Strategies tactic has shown that implementing arts into other fields of ...

Lucy Partman believes that sometimes you have to get as far away from technology as possible to hatch the next great innovation. For the first assignment for her new course “Looking Lab: Experiments ...

CEO at BrainsparkerAcademy.com with over 18 years of experience developing leaders to create, innovate and lead the next frontier. A recent study by Gallup discovered that 61% of employees believed ...

I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” or possibly “The Waves.” ...

Grandin, who has autism, has put her visual thinking skills to work during a career in which she has developed cattle handling equipment and earned a doctorate in animal science from the University of ...

Interestingly, people good at verbal thinking often score about average on object and spatial thinking tests. Only those who excel at object or spatial thinking fare poorly on tests that demand other ...