How Looking at Art Can Boost Your Brain and Communicate Better
Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, and Nate Burleson speak with Amy E. Herman about how looking at art can boost our brains and help us communicate better with one another. Who doesn’t need well-charged brains and better communication skills in today’s world!
Amy, who is a best-selling author, lawyer, and art historian, explains, during a recent CBS Mornings interview, how looking doesn’t always translate into seeing. Works of art help her teach this concept to everyday people and professionals who rely on their visual acuity every single day in their workplaces—“like Navy SEALs and homicide detectives and trauma nurses.”
We get a glimpse of a TED Talk that Ms. Herman did in 2018 before she speaks personally with the show hosts. Amy has adapted her book Visual Intelligence (2016) to create a book for kids and teens entitled smART: Use Your Eyes to Boost Your Brain.
Amy shares that art is a great tool for teaching, because it is seen by everyone and requires no translation to other languages. Everyone sees something and there are no language barriers. She provides an example from her book. Similar to the pictures of faces or vases and the drawing of an old woman or young woman, hosts examine a picture of black and white blotches, trying to determine what it is.
Having been told previously, only Gayle knows what hides in the image; like her, the co-hosts aren’t able to identify it without help. The splotches are actually a picture of a cow! Ms. Herman elaborates further. The fact that some individuals see the cow easily and others struggle to, illustrates how vastly different our perceptions often are. Knowing that is very important!
So… if we understand that others don’t always see what we see, we understand that there is more than one way of seeing things. We may be better at problem-solving, communicating with our children, critically thinking, and resolving differences.
Amy suggests that we communicate our varying views not by telling others they’re wrong or by being surprised at their inability to see as we do, but by better explaining what we see and asking them to fully explain what they do. That is how we develop “visual intelligence.”
By asking better questions, we can collect better information and learn more. Our brains and our eyes work together to look, to see, and, if we keep these points in mind, to understand better. Being “smART” might also just lead to having a bit more heart for others!
“For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face.” Psalms 11:7
Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, and Nate Burleson speak with Amy E. Herman about how looking at art can boost our brains and help us communicate better with one another. Who doesn’t need well-charged brains and better communication skills in today’s world!
Amy, who is a best-selling author, lawyer, and art historian, explains, during a recent CBS Mornings interview, how looking doesn’t always translate into seeing. Works of art help her teach this concept to everyday people and professionals who rely on their visual acuity every single day in their workplaces—“like Navy SEALs and homicide detectives and trauma nurses.”
We get a glimpse of a TED Talk that Ms. Herman did in 2018 before she speaks personally with the show hosts. Amy has adapted her book Visual Intelligence (2016) to create a book for kids and teens entitled smART: Use Your Eyes to Boost Your Brain.
Amy shares that art is a great tool for teaching, because it is seen by everyone and requires no translation to other languages. Everyone sees something and there are no language barriers. She provides an example from her book. Similar to the pictures of faces or vases and the drawing of an old woman or young woman, hosts examine a picture of black and white blotches, trying to determine what it is.
Having been told previously, only Gayle knows what hides in the image; like her, the co-hosts aren’t able to identify it without help. The splotches are actually a picture of a cow! Ms. Herman elaborates further. The fact that some individuals see the cow easily and others struggle to, illustrates how vastly different our perceptions often are. Knowing that is very important!
So… if we understand that others don’t always see what we see, we understand that there is more than one way of seeing things. We may be better at problem-solving, communicating with our children, critically thinking, and resolving differences.
Amy suggests that we communicate our varying views not by telling others they’re wrong or by being surprised at their inability to see as we do, but by better explaining what we see and asking them to fully explain what they do. That is how we develop “visual intelligence.”
By asking better questions, we can collect better information and learn more. Our brains and our eyes work together to look, to see, and, if we keep these points in mind, to understand better. Being “smART” might also just lead to having a bit more heart for others!
“For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face.” Psalms 11:7
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A Prayer to Develop the Spiritual Fruit of Self-Control - Your Daily Prayer - June 6
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A Prayer to Develop the Spiritual Fruit of Self-Control - Your Daily Prayer - June 6
Self-control is the last fruit of the Spirit, but it is by far one of the hardest fruits to develop in our lives.
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