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October 7 - October 9, 2023
Zuckerberg “wears a gray T-shirt every day, saying he wants to focus his decision-making energy on Facebook not fashion.”
On one end of the spectrum are severely impacted children who can’t speak or dress themselves, and who don’t develop rudimentary skills.
On the other end of the spectrum is the person who works at—or invents—Microsoft.
Steve Silberman, in his book NeuroTribes, argues that neurodiversity should be viewed as different operating systems instead of through diagnostic labels.
Thunberg calls her difference her superpower.
While the fetus is developing, however, there are both genetic and non-genetic factors that can affect its growth, including the mother’s diet, environment, stressors, and overall health.
Savants are capable of extraordinary abilities, such as quickly learning multiple foreign languages, playing complex musical arrangements having heard them just once or twice, drawing highly developed photorealistic images, and performing prodigious feats of memory such as calendar and other mathematical calculations.
Yet as far as we know, a savant has never created a masterpiece.
They point to the artist’s “single-minded work routine” and poor social skills.
“Passionate solitude was the very soul of the work and the genius of Michelangelo.”
Thomas G. West in his book In the Mind’s Eye, Leonardo’s abilities as a visual-spatial thinker
Film director Steven Spielberg wasn’t diagnosed with dyslexia until he was sixty.
He started by filming family gatherings, and soon became inseparable from the camera.
E.T., which is about accepting people who are different.
He used a visual vocabulary to express himself.
“dyslexics are great explorers of information.”
dyslexic businesspeople include Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
Ingvar Kamprad, the creator of IKEA, ...
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There is evidence that dyslexia and creativity may be linked.
In Creating Minds, Howard Gardner notes that Picasso had “precocious spatial intelligence but very meager scholastic intelligences.”
Her work is meant to be visually experienced on every level.
Alan Turing, who bridged the gap between the science of logic and mechanical computing machines.
Bill Gates has some Asperger’s-like traits,
High anxiety may cause people to rock, and autistic people often have very high anxiety.
Musk revealed that he had Asperger’s syndrome in a 2021 appearance hosting Saturday Night Live.
Jobs dropped out of college. The course he took at Reed College that impacted him the most was calligraphy.
Jobs’s genius was also all about design. His visual mind cared about every detail, including the font.
essential elements of creativity as salience, asking the right questions, and having relevance, an interest in novelty,
mental flexibility, and the flexibility to apply multiple solutions.
mental focus, and mental wandering as well, which he describes as the brain’s ability to flow and find ...
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Journal of Learning Disabilities, said that Einstein used his unusual visual thinking to achieve scientific greatness.
I was in geek heaven.
Babies, however, have an instinctual fear of falling.
Danger is not an abstraction. We need the people who live where I live: in the world of practical things.
the James Webb Space Telescope was sending back wondrous photos of galaxies from the farthest reaches of the universe.
algorithms can analyze only the data entered into the computer in the first place.
Observation is essential in science—it’s the basis for forming a hypothesis for all formal studies.
phenomenon he calls, citing Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, “finding one thing while looking for something else.”
Visual thinkers are alert to minute differences in methodology, which can make all the difference in an experiment’s results.
The American Society of Civil Engineers in 2021 released the following astonishing national averages: dams, D; bridges, C+; energy, D+.
lack of maintenance of electrical transmission wires was the cause of California’s massive 2020 wildfires.
“Deferred maintenance,” in other words, is a euphemism for no maintenance. It’s
Deferred maintenance is just bad policy, whether it’s your health, your home, or your community.
When there is an outage, he knows exactly where to pinpoint the vulnerability.
The world is filled with mechanical things we take for granted.
Design error was to blame in 2016 when San Francisco’s fifty-eight-story Millennium Tower started to tilt.
your chances of dying in a car accident are 1 in 7,700, while those of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 2.067 million.
yet most people think nothing of getting in a car, but flying can cause a great deal of anxiety.
When you know how things work, they are a lot less frightening.
by the age of twenty, English-speaking Americans know about 42,000 words.
