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@ddrake@mathstodon.xyzI just finished reading Temple Grandin's new book "Visual Thinking". I wrote a pretty long review and thought I'd share.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5162030765
or, I guess here on the fediverse, I should use BookWyrm? Here's my review there:
www.goodreads.comDan Drake's review of Visual Thinking2/5: This came across as a little too disorganized and scattershot; a lot of this book reads like just a firehose of anecdotes, and there are a several not-very-well-related substantive topics that Grandin addresses. A bit more focus would make this a better book -- or even, a couple better books. First, Grandin isn't talking about *all* visual thinking: she describes the distinction between spatial visualizers and object visualizers. The former is related more to abstract visualization and better-connected to verbal thinking; object visualizers, on the other hand, are, well, much more purely v...