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• Visual Intelligence is a work of nonfiction. All stories are recounted as they happened or were told to me, subject to the limitations of memory.
• Seeing clearly and communicating effectively are not rocket science; they’re straightforward skills. We’re born hardwired for both. But more often than we’d care to admit, we fail to use these skills. We show up at the wrong airport gate and try to board the wrong plane, we send an email to the wrong recipient saying something we never should have ...
• I became a neuroscience fanatic, reading all the research I could find and interviewing the researchers who’d conducted it. I even signed up for an online community neuroscience “video game.” And I discovered that while my own perceptions about how we see were wrong on many levels—apparently the retina is part of the brain, not the eye—they were sp...
• Because medical and law enforcement professionals aren’t the only ones who need to know how to identify pertinent information, prioritize it, draw conclusions from it, and communicate it. We all do. A single missed detail or miscommunicated word can just as easily botch a cappuccino order, a million-dollar contract, or a murder investigation. I kno...
• Think of this book as your new self-portrait. You can use it to step back and see yourself through new eyes. What do you look like to the world? How well do you communicate? How well do you observe? What’s behind you and around you and inside you?