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"If you have enjoyed the tools and lessons in this book, I encourage you to take a look at my online visual thinking course at www.napkinacademy.com. I've translated everything in this book into a series of short, interactive videos." oh, sure, NOW he tells us we could have just watched videos instead of reading his book

"What I find most intriguing here is that vision processing appears to take place equally on both sides of the brain" (270) as does nearly everything, it turns out. because right brain/left brain is pseudoscience.

"...soon right-brain/left-brain analogies were applied to everything from understanding the arts to the actions of the stock market. To this day, the distinctions provide a powerful model for dividing problem solving into two main schools: businesspeople who look at the world according to a rational, quantitative perspective, and creative people who see the world in an emotional, qualitative way." (270) ughhhhhhhhhhh

"The right hemisphere, on the other hand, is synthetic, processing large and less well-defined blocks of information through imagery, pattern, and spatial orientation. This right side has a higher propensity for addressing complexity and ambiguity and appears to contain the centers of creativity." (270) "the centers of creativity" ambiguous split brain nonsense.

"By now most people are familiar with the concept that the two hemispheres of our brains process information differently: The left hemisphere is analytic, piecing together small bits of data into linear, rational thoughts. The left side contains the brain centers responsible for both written and verbal language and most mathematical calculation." (270) i mean, the last sentence is true. the conclusions, otoh..

"In chapter 6 when I introduced the SQVID, I pointed out that by asking the five questions we force 'both sides' of our brain into action." (270) oh boy here we go

oh no here comes the right brain left brain nonsense teased earlier, oh no

"Two, like anything in science, it's not completely true." (266) well, this is a terrible take

why is "in cahoots" in the same continuum as ecstatic, pleased, satisfied, so-so, ambivalent, distant, angry, and non-existent???

"[Missy Cumming's] lab is designing the visual displays that the next lunar astronauts will use when they land on the moon, tentatively scheduled for 2013." (44%) ahahahahahahaha hahaahahha big dreams for space travel, guys

oh boy, you're really going into right brain/left brain stuff, Roam?

"You might wish to try to describe the apple in all its luscious glory, red and shiny, round and shapely." (39%) um.

"Much of this visual processing takes place in an evolutionarily ancient part of our brain known as the reptilian brain, or brain stem" (31%) just...no

"Because we act before we even think about it, such actions are called 'precognitive responses' and the sensory inputs that cause them ... are called 'precognitive attributes.'" (28%) I promise you they are not. *googles* ok well they are but only in cogsci circles

"There are several reasons why the poker example works.
1. There is a process, and rules to govern it. Like any activity requiring a series of steps, poker has to be played in a specific order. ... Similarly, visual thinking is also a process guided by rules." (16%) what. Why...why would you use this analogy. How is it helpful?!

"Even though sight is for most of us the most highly developed of all our senses" (20%) at least he's qualifying it now with "for most of us", but still. Eesh.

"...visual thinking is an ability in which we are all innately gifted. The proof is in the physiological, neurological, and biological systems we are born with and the sight-dependent intellectual, physical, and social abilities we learn from the beginning of our lives: namely, our amazing abilities to look, see, imagine, and show." (11%) starting out with an ableist bang