1) The document discusses how our minds have become unbalanced, relying more on verbal thinking than visual thinking over the past 5,000 years of increased writing. 2) It recommends reactivating the visual mind by using visuals such as drawings in meetings rather than relying solely on words, as more than half our brain is dedicated to processing images. 3) Key rules discussed are to draw a picture when saying a word, and to use visual grammar elements like subject, quantity, prepositions if unsure what to draw to accompany verbal explanations.

1. Visual Thinking Reactivate your visual
mind or die out !
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@marcelvanhove!
LAST Melbourne on 2nd August 2013!

2. Make some notes!!
Take an eclipse shaped paper, make some notes
and pin it on the big picture!!
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3. Have you ever experienced!
Blah
Blah
Blah!
a boring meeting?!
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4. Why are meetings
une"cent and boring
and blah blah blah?!
Guessing!
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No visual
support!!

5. More than half of your
brain works on processing
images!!
Visual"CPU"
Processor"
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6. Our mind works
visual and verbal... !
Focussed"on"details"
using"speech"to"
explain"the"world""
Verbal!
Mind !
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Focussed"on"the"
big"picture"using"
images"to"explain"
the"world"
Visual"
Mind"

7. Our mind works
visual and verbal...!
„But the two systems got out of balance!“!
rbal !
Super ve
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Poor
Visual!
Mind!

8. How could that happen...?!
Once upon a
time...!
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hCp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux""

10. Picture and
sound!
Only sound!
Alpu "ox“ -> Alpha!-> A!
!
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hCp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux"

11. We draw for 25.000 years –
The last 5.000 years we
focussed more and more on
writing!!
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25.000"Years"of"Drawing"and"Story"Telling"
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12. „This signs may
be used to
indicate the
hazards of fallen
or falling rocks
on the road
ahead.“
(Wikipedia)!
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13. We lost half of our mind !
on that way! !
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Mind !
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Poor
Visual!
Mind!

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hCp://farm5.staRcflickr.com/4010/4652004576_381b772e84_b.jpg"

16. Welcome to Visual
Thinking!

17. Rule #1: „When we say a
word we should draw a
picture! (and Vise Versa)“!
Team"
Vivid"idea"=""
”Visual"and"Verbal"
interdependent”"
(Dan"Roam)"
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18. Team"
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19. Rule #2: „Use Visual
Grammar if you don‘t know
what to draw!“!
Verbal"
Grammar"
„Subject + verb + preposition + object“!
„The man + stands + under
+ a tree.“!
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20. Welcome to
Visual Grammar
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21. Subject „Who or
What?“!
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22. Adjectives of
quantity !
„How many?“!
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23. Preposition &
Conjunctions
„Where?“!
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24. Tense „When?“!
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25. Sentence to
describe „How?“!
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26. Sentence to
describe „Why?“!
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27. Visual Grammar!
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28. Further reading
and drawing...!
• Dan Roam „Blah Blah Blah – What to do when words don‘t work!
• Dan Roam „Back of a Napkin“ - Solving Problems and Selling
Ideas with Pictures !
• Pikablo Books – (Visual dictionary)!
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29. Visual Practitioner Meetup...!
Next Tuesday, 6 PM
Pugg Mahones!
Hardware Street!
http://www.meetup.com/Visual-Practitioners-Melbourne/!
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30. Thank you very much!!