About 15000 pages of notes and paintings in Da Vinci's Hammer Manuscript are all visual thinking views mixed by art and science. This book contains a series of natural sciences such as physical engineering, mechanical dynamics, bioengineering, human anatomy, astronomy, architecture and so on.
Newton, the founder of classical physics, began to take notes with visual charts very early. Newton was known as "an encyclopedic all-rounder" for his extensive life. In his manuscript, there are a lot of research experiments and data, and Newton usually records his research in an intuitive way.
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From the moment the door of 2 1 century was opened, mankind entered an unprecedented era of high-speed knowledge explosion. Under the tide of informationization, the method of acquiring knowledge is more important than knowledge itself. Building a systematic knowledge system requires necessary tools. As a result, visual thinking, a tool to make thinking explicit, has also been developed.
Visual thinking refers to the use of a series of graphic techniques to present the original abstract thinking, including thinking methods and thinking paths, so that its process can be clearly seen, and the result is a kind of thinking ability. Visual thinking is more conducive to understanding and memory, and can effectively improve the efficiency of information processing and information transmission. Simply put, it is "a picture is worth ten thousand words".
At present, the scientific research related to global visual thinking mainly comes from pedagogy, psychology, management and other fields. Many "practical tools" have been born to improve the learning and thinking process. Such as mind mapping); Developed by Dr. David Heller of the United States; Mind mapping); Invented by British brain expert Tony Bozan; "Six Thinking Hats" developed by Dr. Edward edward de bono of Cambridge University, UK; Psychologist Joseph D. Nowak put forward the concept map technology at Cornell University. Fishbone diagram invented by Japanese management master Mr. Ishikawa Kaoru and so on.
In the traditional process of thinking and communication, the process of thinking is invisible. However, the development of thinking is not only the accumulation of answers, but also the method and process of thinking. This requires us to clearly present the process and method of "invisible" thinking. Visual thinking is more conducive to understanding and memory, and can effectively improve the efficiency of information processing and information transmission.
Visual thinking is known as "brain nuclear bomb", which can stimulate more than 70 kinds of learning ability and thinking ability, and enable you to cross obstacles and communicate with more than 7,000 languages and cultures around the world.
The earliest use of visual thinking by human beings can be traced back to 45,000 years ago, which laid the foundation for the birth of characters. Harvard University started the research on visual thinking in 1967, and so far more than 2,000 famous universities around the world have carried out the research and application of visual thinking. Fortune 500 companies are taking visual thinking as an important way of daily communication, report and summary.
Sherlock Holmes uses memory palace and deduction to restore the case, simulates and restores a series of broken details on the spot, and then uses scene reasoning technology to explore the essence of the case, that is, to establish a visual thinking scene in his mind.
Napoleon, a talented military strategist, used visual thinking to perfect the "column tactics" and led the French army to gallop across the European battlefield. He lost many battles, but he kept the legend of winning more than 40 wars with the weak.
Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, said in his book The Road to the Future, "Visual thinking will be the main way for us to obtain information in the next stage. Bill Gates said: Visual thinking can connect a lot of knowledge and ideas, so as to maximize innovation.
In the book Origin of Species, Darwin used visual thinking to show the obscure theory of biological evolution in a vivid form, which made human beings truly understand their own sources for the first time.
Edison had more than 2000 inventions and 1000 patents in his life. In the history of Edison's invention, visual thinking is an important ability, which is reflected in many of Edison's inventions. When Edison first invented the phonograph, he made an idea and finally made a machine.
Jack Welch, the legendary manager of GE, used the principle of visual thinking to draw a famous core business circle of GE on a piece of paper, which opened a drastic reform of GE and made GE one of the companies with the highest market value at the same time.
The World Brain Organization took visual thinking as the competition theme and founded the World Visual Thinking Championship, hoping to show thinking in a more interesting and vivid form. There are a large number of participants in this event, and players from different regions and nationalities around the world participate every year. Under the impetus of the World Visual Thinking Championship, many classic ideas and concepts have emerged, which are widely regarded as the "Renaissance" in the field of thinking.