“visual thinking” ?

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i guess, it is related to the simplified process of thinking from the perception of issues, subjects to leaping to the conclusion – often without the middle process of conceptualising, wording, reasoning – via seeing them in pictures, photographs, or momentary fogs of ambiguities, mumbles and bumbles, then something pop out (if found something), and then interpreting them into words to answer.

so, often the answer maybe in economized words, without that much elaboration. in real world, realized that some people use amazing number of words in describing a minor issues, to describe which they may use tens or hundreds of words while some people similar to me may use one or two words to describe it. if people like me meet  that type of people or writings, then we may get amazed by their vocabrary first and then get lost in words.

this was one tragic issue with the ex, too. he thought through his mouth, instead of through his head. so, he spoke every words (in his head) through his mouth (except his affair stuff; by the way how he could thought about doing that physical thingy with that gynormous bear looking Ru- woman. i always thought that he has incessant, constant crush on analecsic-teen-looking girls in simple t-shirts; it was not about who, it was about whomever-thin girl looking females of everywhere) and chased me around home with his instructions on every trivial things, even when i said it’s not necessary. and if i don’t do it exactly what he said, he got enraged.

at one point (actually many times), i almost thought that i was going to lose the custody of kids, because i couldn’t hire….and didn’t know where to get help…..even now, in dreamy condition, things sound rosy but the reality is really harsh…and, as careless person as i am about reality, ignoring the actual red numbers….and try to believe this is the time of going down as low as possible before resurrection as J…..and i don’t know. executing G’s …..how much i’m supposed to be …a passive or proactive being………what He expects….have no idea. “rifkin…reagonomics…” whatever…..sound interesting…but everybody will think me crazy if i think about those conceptual stuffs when have to think about how to sustain my lifeboat. and i think so too. but still cannot get to the bottom of life and living in conceptual, dreamy world. for previous earth, i thought i was going to be the eventual larger financial generator if i can settle down into stable environment to start to….and get some english help…….didn’t consider that earth as the major source of …., if the perceived G’s plan was was supposed to come true. (and the plan was me helping that earth’s dream in a way of helping planet and glorify G.; myself was not so much interested in being central figure, tiresome.) it’s just fixed salary. how much anybody could expect from that. luxyry …..color matches, beautiful objects, beautiful rooms….nice places…are important to certain extents as i’m very conscious of colors, shapes, visual images, etc., to certain point. probably i would be very depressed if have to live in barren environments without any …..but not crazy about luxury….they are simple byproducts after major things are done well, correctly. not the other way around.; where wallc..l…why it disappeared.; “light of the world” “”responsi”; will have to mov..by the end of …..

Self-Evolution within Lifetime

Good News. We human beings can evolve ourselves into better selves within our lifetime. According to research, we conscious beings can evolve, drive our “personality, cognitive capacities, emotions and actions” based on our needs, intents, and “power of vision.” So, we don’t necessarily have to be dictated by our genetics and environments alone. We can be self-motivated movers too. This means “self evolution”, “nurturing” by self and others enable a person to be who he desires to be and inherit the trait to his offsprings. Please check out the site: “How to Evolve in Your Lifetime,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/how-to-evolve-in-your-lifetime_b_840363.html

“The capacity for self-evolution of your personality, mental capacities, relationships and actions in the world — is based on “conscious intent.” That is, shaping your being is an art form, the way an artist develops, evolves and creates a painting or a composer creates music.”

“Consciousness is destiny. Instead of being dictated to by your genes and chemical processes in the brain… you are the author of your own life – capable of change, healing, creativity and personal transformation.”

“Human can evolve by acting more like the person he/she wants to be.””What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

evolving  earth. the first chapter of new testament.

Excessive Blinking, Visual Thinker, Right-Brain Thinker

This blog post is to simply understand the causes of excessive eye blinking by some people. (The second picture is chosen to symbolize a “Visual Thinker”s random thinking process.) Through internet, I found three or four possible reasons of excessive blinking as below:

(a)    Excessive blinking may be due to serious medical problem that may eventually lead to dementia or stroke (according to a lady whose parent had been a doctor of oriental medicine); or excessive blinkers may have eyelid spasms due to the above reasons or nervous system disorder, anxiety, stress;

(b)   Excessive blinkers may be lying;

(c)    Blinkers’ eyes are dried out; or contact lens are bothering their eyes; or

(d)   Blinkers May be visual thinkers.

The first three reasons are either unhealthy, unpleasant or meaningless. So, I chose the fifth, (d), to go on my search.

According to web search of “Visual Thinker,” along with the style of thinking in words, human uses “non-verbal thinking” methods, along with thinking in words, which include visual, physical (kinaesthetic), aural (musical) and logical (mathematical/systems) thinking styles. Among these non-verbal thinking methods, visual thinking is most common. “Visual Thinker” is identified as a person who thinks in images, pictures, possesses photographic memory, and uses visualization for mental reasoning, thinking. According to L. Silverman, roughly 60-65% of population uses certain extents of visual thinking along with other types of thinking modes. But strong visual/spatial thinkers are less than 30% of population and “true visual thinkers” that uses visual thinking above all other modes of thinking account for only a small percentage of this 30% of population that use strong visual/spatial thinking.

“Visual Thinkers” seem to share the traits of “Right-brained Thinkers.” Scientists say that right-brained thinkers use their right-side brain dominantly over their left-side brain, and.  Right brain-thinking are characterized as being (a) process thinking or information in random, intuitive, holistic, and subjective ways;  look at wholes instead of parts and bad with details; (b) prefers abstract reasoning and concepts over simple stuff; (c) use stronger visual memories than verbal memories in their thinking process; (d) poor handwriting, generally uncoordinated, relative difficulties with reading, listening or writing; (e) sequential thinking may be stressful and may prefer math concepts over arithmetics; (f) disorganization; (g) creativity, focus on aesthetics and feelings. On the contrary, “Left-brained Thinkers” tend to process thinking or information in logical, sequential, rational, analytical, and objective ways and focus on parts instead of wholes. Most people tend to have combined uses of right and left brains at varying extents. Also, some people tend to be whole-brained. I like this part. “Strong visual thinking is critical to the solving of many of the important problems in the modern world.” According to T. G. West, visual thinker is super at identifying patterns and concepts out of chaos and superior to verbal thinking. I learned that some of “the most distinguished scientists, literates, and artists,” including Einstein, Edison, Faraday and Yeats, were “Visual Thinkers.”

Now, as I know the brief concepts of “visual thinker” and “right-brained thinker,” I may attempt to probe the cause of visual thinker’s occasional intensive blinking that may puzzle people in front of them. Internet provides the following possible scenarios of why some people intensively blink:

(a)  when people are thinking more, they blink more (also liars may blink more when they lie because lying requires more thinking about what to lie);

(b)   when they people are listening carefully to someone, they are more likely to blink when the speaker pauses, keeping eyes open to watch everything you say“;

(c)   visual thinkers tend to use less eye contact when they think/talk and instead tend to stare into air or upward; if a situation forces them to engage in thinking/talking process in front of listener(stranger)’s direct stare at their faces, this external distraction may interfere with their visual thinking process and may cause their excessive blinking;

(d)  visual thinkers may close their eyes sometimes while talking, so they can better see the internal images without external distraction.

Were these the possibly reasons that an actor, Hue Grant, often excessively blinked in many of his movies ? Of course, there is no way to figure out what kind of information is being processed in a visual thinker’s mind when the person is intensively blinking in front of other speaker or listener.

Finally, in my previous blog post, I talked about “Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Anything Wrong With It?” In that blog, I mentioned about Dr. F. Lawlis’ classification of six faces of human natures that are symbolically named after animals such as wolf, eagle, snake, bull, deer, and beaver. Here, I’d like to talk about “Eagle” that has the strength of having vision, future perspective and offering direction and guidance, but flawed with the weakness of not doing the details. Basically, “Visual Thinker,” “Right-brained Thinker” seem to have the potential of being an “Eagle.” I guess anybody who become an “Eagle” will need to have a leap of faith.

Whmmmm, does this sound like an unexpected twist of conclusion?

To me, too. When I start to write, I never know where I am heading.

Yarning for Eagle’s Vision: “Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Anything Wrong With It?”

From my childhood, consciously or unconsciously, I think I have had some kind of yarning for “distinguished humanbeing” with “Eagle’s Vision.” I am not sure what kind of yarning it had been. Whether I wanted to meet him in person or just quietly observe, witness his path of life to greatness in distance (I am not sure even what kind of greatness I was looking for). Probably it was not about meeting the person, because I am not enthusiastic about putting up good face, acting up, enthusiastically shaking hands or hugging, and being proud of meeting a historic figure. Probably, I would rather have preferred to be one of thousands of audience who go to listen to his speech and observe how he is doing, seating in my comfort zone and without any need to purposefully smile or act myself up.

I have had the strong sense of not being able to beat the odds by myself. After going through the silly process of growing up virtually meaninglessly (growing up and going through schools and college in my native country Korea of old days meant preparing to be a good wife and mother), going through some education in this country but ending up being a mom in very inappropriate time (actually there never seemed to be appropriate time to be mom for me), and when I seemed to be somewhat getting out of the stage of being a mom of baby/toddler, having another one to make the older one not to be lonely. In this process, having a husband of old fashioned mind whose concept of being a husband means providing bread and roof over head and virtually living on computer meant I was on my own with living business. Here came the terrible inconvenience of being a foreigner without families in same country and periodically moving to different places.

When my kids grow older and I started seeing beyond family, the first person I noticed was Mr. Obama who was beating his odds to become President of United States, fascinating me. Around this time, I wrote the below article that was posted at “Everyday Citizen” in October 2009. I re-post this old writing in this blog, because it has certain meaning to me.

“I believe that, although in short-term, things may often look messy, but in long-term we will eventually see the true value of Mr. Obama.

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Anything Wrong With It?

Mikyung Lim, Everyday Citizen, October 15, 2009

The news of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama appears to have come as a surprise and caused fierce criticism, cynicism that the award is premature. This strong resistance to the decision even followed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s unprecedented defense of why they believe President Obama is the right choice for the award. To me, the early Friday morning’s announcement of the award brought a brief moment of surprise, followed by “Ah Ha” moment of realizing why the Nobel committee made such a decision. I viewed the decision as an evidence of the sincere wisdom of the Nobel Committee.

When President Obama became the 44th President of United States, I posted a blog on “the meaning of his inauguration” to me on Obama’s website…

“Witnessing the beginning of new chapter of US and world politics and economic landscape in face to paramount challenges from current domestic and global economic downturn and defending US status in world politics and economy in competition with unifying European countries (EU), China, and India.

Witnessing the beginning chapter of sincerely saving the planet earth, our precious habitat, and potentially creating newage human society, lifestyle, and culture over very very long term.

Witnessing the swearing-in of new-kind of political leader / prophet who will truly work on policies on behalf of people, rather than for the sake of interest groups or capital owners, based on facts, sciences, complicate intellects, high-tech methods and skills, and professionalism to do problem-solving of the society and world. He may be able to fix the problems of malfunctioning market system to keep industries and jobs around and prevent future market crashes if he keeps doing his hard work on identifying and solving problems of this country as he has been doing.

Witnessing the beauty of Obama Couple / Family’s love story, their story of achieving their ultimate, highest goal of their lives together.

Witnessing God’s history making of mankind in this country.
Yes, I am a kind of idealist.”

Since then, the exhausting roller coaster of financial and health care reform debates has made my initial fascination faded and made me really tired of all bunch. And the President’s winning of Nobel Peace Prize revived the memory of my fascination and sentimentalism when he gave speeches upon winning the presidential election and inauguration and Prague, Afghanistan Strategy, and Cairo speeches. Despite all criticism, I have no way of objecting to the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s statement of choosing President Obama as the winner of Nobel Peace Prize:

“His extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people and promotion of nuclear disarmament. … Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future…”

Mark Halperine of Time/CNN listed Five Ways Winning the Nobel Helps/Hurts Obama:

Helps:

1. Validation of his world view.
2. Momentum in current peace talks around the world.
3. Adds to his aura as a historic figure.
4. Allows him to recover from his Olympic failure.
5. Gives him cover to expand the war in Afghanistan.

Hurts:

1. Raises expectations.
2. Emboldens and angers his domestic critics.
3. Will make him the target of late-night comedy jokes.
4. Further divides a polarized America.
5. Will alienate some other (jealous) world leaders, making it harder to work with them.

My reaction to these lists are, “Oh, come on. Let’s set the priority straight on this issue. I don’t see the importance of anything else but the item 2 of “Helps” list: “Momentum in current peace talks around the world.” The rest of the lists seem to be secondary or minor.

In the same context, as a meager effort to steer public opinion, I have commented to several news or blog posts such as Mr. Heilbrunn’s “President Obama’s Noble Nobel Prize” and Mr. Russnow’s “Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds actually Done?” at The Huffington Post; and Mr. Joe Klein’s “No Peace, No Prize” at Time. These news/blogs either criticized the prematurity of the award to Mr. Obama or praised the positive sides of it. Here, I repeat my response to them.

This Noble Peace Prize is the confirmation of what I felt on the date of President Obama’s inauguration. My honest opinion is, his domestic and foreign policies since his inauguration have proved that he is a “Man of Mission.” Three of the Nobel Committee also believed that Pres. Obama has achieved enough to deserve the Prize and the award was not based on future premise. What he has worked on so far have been all about “changing, correcting wrongdoings” that have chronically damaged domestic and world communities.

I believe, instead of focusing on how prestigious the Nobel Prize is, it is wiser to focus on how to use this Prize as a vehicle to serve the world and people better that will greatly boost Pres. Obama’s global agendas. World peace is a work-in-progress without time limit. It’s not like outstanding science discoveries that can be discovered at one time and awarded with Nobel Prize after their success rates being tested by time. President Obama has demonstrated that, at this point of time, he is the “Single” person in the world who can achieve higher progress in international diplomacy and cooperation and disarmament of new clear weapons than anybody else.

He set the strong foundation for this task from the beginning of his presidency. As it has become obvious that Mr. Obama is the “One” in international affair, instead of awarding him when he finishes his task, why not awarding him now, in the middle of his work being progressed.

The timing of “now” will be better than “later” to help him maximize his potential, ability to achieve his global mission.

In the same context, I commented to Mr. Joe Klein’s “No Peace, No Prize” at Time to focus on the positive sides of the winning, if he really cared for the impact of this Award in the world and US.

The priority of this award should be given to the magnitude of progress it can make on world peace talk rather than bickering on whether Pres. Obama has accomplished enough or not. Does Mr. Klein have any other person in his mind who can achieve this global agenda far better than Mr. Obama for now and in near future? Probably not. Criticizing for the goal of criticism, opposing for the goal of opposition without working on solution do not help anything but adding to the problem. I ask Mr. Klein which one of the hypothetical options below he would choose.

• Pres. Obama, with winning Nobel Peace Prize, achieves 85% success rate of his global missions by the end of his term(s).
• Pres. Obama, without winning the award, achieves 50% success of his global missions by the end of his term(s).”

Finally, I want to comment on what I read from a book by Dr. Frank Lawlis. According to him, each person has six faces (natures) that are symbolically named after animals, wolf, eagle, snake, bull, deer, and beaver.

Here, I’d like to talk about a few of them. “Eagle” has the strength of having vision, future perspective and offering direction and guidance, but flawed with the weakness of not doing the details. “Bull” has the strength of focusing on goals and leadership toward objectives, but has the weakness of too narrowly focused and not seeing others.

“Beaver” is talented with the ability of coordinating, planning, group power, and mastery over details, but it lacks of vision and future perspective. It pays too close attention to all details and “now” to see big picture. Each person tends to heavily use one of these five faces, but not all of them, in forming their personality types. Sometimes, I wish to see more of political leaders that dwell on the quality of “Eagle”, rather than that of “Beaver,” especially after witnessing the disappointing rollercoaster of US politics this year.

I believe this “Eagle’s Quality” is what the Nobel Committee saw in President Obama when it bestowed the award to him – as a person, and in his past and future work.