CityVP Manjit

6 years ago · 5 min. reading time · ~10 ·

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Buzz Submitted by :  Dr. Ali Anani

Buzz : Go Visual

Ali Anani encourages us to "go visual" - in my Paradox Wisdom I will address visual smarts and the challenges that this brings

The key to visual smarts is recognizing the value of our own attention and what we attend to in that regard is the smarts. To be visually smart in the 21st Century is to defend against the external battle for our attention to visually entrance us. It is also learning from those folk who are visually advanced, not to be like them but learn from them.

As a new pathway begins for me, I have updated my Paradox Pyramid to create a hexagonal relationship.  It is still based on my Renaissance format though the above pyramid is based on the next release format #58.  I support Ali Anani's call to "Go Visual" but I do so with a personal cavaet, and that is what I am exploring here.

The visual age did not arrive with internet video, it arrived with television.  Being that the internet is more interactive, we now have more involvement with touching visual content, rather than sit starring at a television screen and watch shows made by visual professionals.  My go-to speech when it comes to television is the one made by Newton Minnow in 1961

The chief feature of the Tony Buzan video which is the learning wisdom is that the students in this video take time to engage practice.  They are not simply consuming visual information or data, the key part of their learning is what they put into practice and how they re-wire their brains by embracing activity which may not fit their present competency.  This applies equally to creative thinkers who are beginning to learn critically, as much as it does critical or reflective thinkers learning to be creative thinkers.

Tony Buzan simply provides a very elementary segway into creative thinking and by itself it is insufficient to transform over the long-term to becoming visually smart.  For that we need to know who creative people are and then learn from their creative mindsets.  Georg Petschnigg  is an example of a creative that can take me to another dimension of creativity, but yet again the caveat is that this is still introducing me to creative thinking and far removed from intermediary or advanced creative thinking training.

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@cityvp/the-renaissance-man except that buzz is Release #57 and this Paradox Pyramid is based on Release #58.  All of this is a part of my own personal learning journey online, and also offline through my Toastmasters groups.


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CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #3

#6
I celebrate difference because we learn from people different from us, but people are just one component of nature and thus embracing diversity begins from the source and that inner connect to our own True North - that is what connects me to the diversity I am able to touch or manage. We are both diverse.

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #2

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For me it is not about layers but triangulation of creative, critical and reflective thinking and in that trinity, the emegence within the pyramid that creates the paradox. The paradox here is that the pyramid is a unique fingerprint of our own individual life point and is determined by our individual point of development. In my case my paradox pyramid culminates to INDIVIDUAL. For another person it may be RELATIONAL or even better it can be whatever word they want it to be. Instead of juggling 15 concepts or balls, I have 15 categories that can be compartmentalized in my mind through the visual smarts of colour. Yet the paradox is to avoid compartmentalization and instead foster emergence. That is what draws me to create two elements which are the same thing - the Paradox Pyramid and the Renaissance Spectrum. I am currently stronger in my reflective ability than I am in my creative and critical abilities - and the outcome of that insight means that when it comes to my learning pathways, the joy of learning is realizing just how much potential and capability I have not realized - and that is a very good thing !!! The problem is our learning pathways should be our own DNA but we conflate or compare with others and that diminishes us or at least creates an unnecessary social anxiety. At the same time as we grow others may seek to put us on a pedestal and that too is not what we should control, for then we lose visual smartness and instead become an object of attention. For me to be visually smart, this exploration and learning pathway must aid me towards realizing peace within and then joy with wisdom. Anything material beyond that is simply a bonus or a blessing.

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #1

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Being receptive to images is what the Spectacle is about and it is what fuels the mentality of personal branding. So it is that the majority of the population is visually entranced and to such a point, that they cannot even match the visual smarts of artistic cave people. Cave Art was painted by people who did not have a single form of modern convenience and these people faced an enormity of challenges to deal with day-to-day survival. I am ridiculously dependent compared to self-sufficient cave people some 25,000 years ago. We have had 25,000 years to develop as a species and today we are more likely to admire visual smarts than we are to engage visual smarts. The film makers who put together the next Avengers film at Marvel are already heavily advertising its May release. If I compare myself with the smartest visual creators of our age, I lag far behind them. There are also visually smart people who I know who are engaged in minimum wage work often because they do not have a professional outlet for their abilities or there is insufficient opportunities in the work place to exercise those abilities. That says something about the modern workplace that does not make use of employees who possess visual smarts. This leaves these people in relatively low level jobs and vulnerable to being fired because if they do anything creative, it is invariably a desire to improve the system. Since they cannot improve a corporate system on their own, they are seen as rule breakers.

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