With the new year right around the corner, it is the time for resolutions again. Which we might follow for a few days, or weeks, or even months before they finally start fading away.
So, instead of making a resolution for some new weird hopeless diet, we learn a new technique to improvising our thought processes? Seems a bit far fetched? Believe me, it’s not.
You could make the next year the year you embrace the fine thinking capability which will help you make better decisions called visual thinking.
What is Visual Thinking?
Visual thinking is considered art. It’s an art to represent your thoughts or your ideas on paper as a combination of doodles, drawings, and words.
For example, if you are a scientist in the field of chemistry, you’ll draw the atomic structures with some formulae.
This example represents a bigger scale. But you can apply visual thinking for your day to day chores too.
For example, if you are a reader, just write down the thoughts of a writer with the scenario that comes into your mind.
It is an easier and more fun way to think and it also results in a measurable amount of success.
Do you want to know how? Let’s take a look at the need for visual thinking.
Benefits of Visual Thinking:
Learning to think visually can have numerous advantages in your business, career, and overall life. Let’s take a look at them.
- It’ll help you enhance your creativity and generate better ideas.
- Once you have a concept clearer in your mind you can get close to the solutions.
- It’ll improve your decision-making capabilities.
- Your thoughts will become clearer to yourself.
- It’ll also improve your communication for the key concepts and ideas since the idea is now clear to you.
- Visual thinking will strengthen your focus and attention.
- Last but not least, it’ll make thinking fun. Don’t believe me? What did you do in a very boring class? Doodle, right? A little artistry makes everything a bit less boring.
How to think Visually?
This is not exactly a guide to thinking visually. But these things will surely help you in improving your visual thinking skills.
Draw casually and repeatedly
You might think that you can’t draw, so how will you think visually? You don’t need to be Picasso to put the thoughts in your brain onto paper.
You just need a pen and a paper and you’re ready to go. Draw anything that seems closely related to whatever you are thinking and that’s your visual thinking draft.
Try Visualising your target
Your ultimate motive for doing anything should be what you’re trying to achieve. This will make the path you’re going to follow more clear.
Keep visualising your goal throughout the process as it will help you focus more and get a clearer perspective on your ideas and goals.
Always keep a pen or pencil handy
You can never know when an idea can strike. Keep a pencil and paper handy at all times so that you don’t miss out on any ideas and will be able to put them down on paper right away.
Finally, what we are trying to say is that you need to be focused on what you want to achieve and visual thinking is an effective way to do that.