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Visual Thinking

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Temple Grandin 2022 / West Slope 152.14 GRANDIN

• 001 Born 1947, late speech, therapy
• 011 Cattle halt in chute ... shadows, dangling chains

• 012 U. Montreal Laurent Mottron / Sylvia Belleville

• 012 Autism visual perception and accuracy
• 015 Geniuses are usually pilers instead of filers / Linda Silverman
• 017 Grace Murray Hopper took apart 7 family clocks

• 017 TaskRabbit assemble Ikea furniture

• 024 1987 UCSD MRI, cerebellum 30% smaller than average, amygdala three times larger
• 025 Walter Schneider Diffusion Tensor Imaging, speech circuits 30% smaller, visual 400% larger
• 027 Magnetoencephalography (MEG) visual thinkers create visual area images, verbal thinkers relied on self-talk

• 027 Roger Sperry, we "neglect the non-verbal form of intellect. ... modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere."

• 028 autism ... multiple genes of small effect
• 029 25% blind use echolocation, the brain reuses visual cortex for other senses

• 031 Maria Kozhevnikov Harvard Med School 2002 Visualizer-Verbalizer Cognitive Style Questionnaire VVCSQ. folded paper with hole, where are holes when unfolded, Grandin terrible at this

• 032 Object visualizers (ie TG) and spatial visualizers (patterns and abstractions, music math EE physics)
• 036 TG draws accurate blueprints, tracing mental image onto paper, works with brilliants marginalized for weirdness
• 039 aphantasia, no visual imagery, hyperphantasia
• 039 Which green is lighter, leaf or pine needle? Leaves range from black to light green to red and brown, silly question.
• 040 hyperphantasia, excessively(?) detailed visual memories
• 044 Life, Animated documentary about autistic Owen Suskind (5 copies wccls)

• 047 RemoveDEBRIS "combat interstellar debris" sic

• 050 Elias Howe favorite inventor, Lockstitch sewing machine

• 051 2001 "No Child Left Behind" stripped away shop, theater, all hands-on learning
• 052 some interns never used scissors
• 053 field trips unfunded, but nearby "sidewalk field trips" also work
• 055 TG teaches veterinarians, but was screened out of veterinary school, couldn't master algebra
• 059 many gripes about math requirements
• 061 kids do better with real world examples
• 063 40% STEM drop out, twice attrition rate of other majors, "math-science death march"

• 065 TG taught phonics by mother, using interesting stories, similar to IEP

• 066 Boarding school, TG took care of horses
• 068 TG reads writing out loud, remembers teacher's grammar corrections, learned to pick out main points

• 069 Katherine Johnson, skipped grades as child

• 070 "Is it going to be on the test?"

• 071 $1.3T student loans

• 072 SAT earns $1B for College Board, $1.1B for college prep industry, biased against minorities
• 073 UC and others no longer consider SAT

• 074 Iverson Larson Simple Thinking French

• 076 How to raise an adult: break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success by Julie Lythcott-Haims

• 078 Navigating Autism TG 2021 "label locking"

• 081 TB built Ames Room for high school psychology class

• 085 Kid's book about inventions, long gone. Perhaps Famous Inventors and their Inventions by Fletcher Pratt, 1955

• 088 Engineering and the Mind's Eye Ferguson archive.org, PSU TA145.F37 1992

• 092 Perseverance Mars Rover 23 cameras

• 095 ASML lithography
• 095 Brookings Institution, US 16th/18 % people in manufacturing, lack of skilled workers,

• 099 Serpentine cattle chutes

• 099 Grit Angela Duckworth

• 100 Karla Fisher Intel

• 104 Walgreens two warehouses reconfigured with low-reading terminals for disabled, outperforming other warehouses
• 106 Autism low interviewing and social skills, 15% employed
• 109 Jobs for kids, mantra: Early exposure, early intervention, early experience

• 109 Apprentice School Newport News Virginia

• 112 26,000 US apprenticeship programs, starting salary $72K, 92% employment retention rate

• 118 Amazon, Walmart, KFC, others pay for GED training

• 122 Haig Antranikian 1936 Flux valve

• 122 Maternal grandfather John Coleman Purves developed & patented magnetic compass 1945

• 123 Bendix renamed device fluxgate, Sperry legitimate license after war, Gyrosyn

• 123 A Thorn in my Pocket, Eustacia Cutler (mother)

• 124 Russell and Sigurd Varian

• 125 Palo Alto, Klystron

• 126 "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off of the goal" -- Henry Ford
• 127 Jim Uhl mid 1970s verbal thinking partner, TG made sales by showing drawings and photos

• 128 Center Track Conveyor Restrainer

  • many youtube videos about slaughtering plants by TG
• 131 Verbal-thinking rationalizing schedule-fantasizing suits vs safety-aware techies TG driven by project loyalty over ego

• 138 Musk space helmets inspired by Daft Punk, Space suits by hollywood costume designer Jpse Fernandez

• 138 Musk spends 80% of his time in SpaceX and Tesla engineering and design departments

• 138 Gwynne Shotwell COO

• 139 Steve Jobs / calligrapy and fonts at Reed college

• 140 Woz wanted upgradeability, Job wanted less confusion, split after 10 years, new designer Jony Ive

• 141 Collaboration, different department individuals shadow one another
• 142 neurologically varied teams outperformed homogenous teams

• 143 Apollo Space suit platex gloves outperformed bulky Litton and Hamilton Standard

• 144 Hal Lanning Apollo guidance computer

• 145 25y ago editor, current coauthor Betsy Lerner verbal thinker. TG writes first draft, Betsy rearranges, taught TG to explain better.

• 146 Writing of the gods : the race to decode the Rosetta Stone

• 147 Champollion and Young, object and spatial visualizer two aspects of decodign

• 148 Clive Thompson Coders

• 149 The Secret History of Women in Coding

• 150 Hammerstein wrote lyrics in PA, sent to Rogers who composed melodies in CT or NYC
• 152 Fusion Tokamak (hotter); Stellarator (stable) but harder to make, TG fave
• 155-6 young TG enamored with Wright brothers, Edison
• 157 Edison failed school, taught by mother and other mentors
• 159 Neurodiversity helps groups solve many different problems
• 163 paraphrasing Peter Thiel - hire "spectrum", not MBAs
• 164 Zuckerberg? Greta Thunberg Aspergers
• 165-178 brain observations and exceptional people

• 178 Turing and Hilbert's ''Entscheidungsproblem''

• 180 "Aspergers" . Bill Gates . Elon Musk
• 182 Steve Jobs again

• 184 Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

• 186 Einstein
• 189 "Grade A Bookworms"Inflexible problem solvers
  • Many vigniettes from here on, problems emerging from lack of input from many varieties of mind
• 237 Animal Consciousness and Visual Thinking
  • examples of errant "expert" nonsense about animals