Are you looking closely? Visual educator Amy Herman explains how to use art to enhance your powers of perception and find connections where they may not be apparent. Learn the techniques Herman uses to train Navy SEALs, doctors and crime scene investigators to convert observable details into actionable knowledge with this insightful talk.
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Totally first
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real
Get off my videos.
How can our eyes not be real if we invented glasses
jaden smith wisdom
Quoting every 14 year olds savior, Jaden Smith
As a handwriting Analyst i agree 🙂
*_Staring at the wet paint to dry is the fun way to keep yourself healthy_*
Visual Educator? What happened to STEM?
Just add art to get STEAM.
+Robert Shaver this is not about art. He’s not here. It’s about getting consulting jobs
@John Hillman but I was replying to your comment, not his. Some people are adding art into the mix for encouraging & educating people that think creatively and see what’s possible beyond what is obvious.
11:10 now I know, where I lost my book… was looking for it all the time
how does this explain schrodingers cat?
+John Hillman how does one explain what is self-explanatory?
+Paul Googol by letting it say itself
Sometimes we can create distorted expressions. Not everything we are seeing ,. We observe through the eyes but we think that it depends on the mind of the person who is looking ,.
“Always looks for what isn’t there” thats deep.
you can see a lot, just by looking
That’s the “ground” part of “field and ground” of perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%E2%80%93ground_(perception)
MartyKuB
Sounds like advice that you wouldn’t want to take. It’s just like trying to fix what isn’t broken. It will make you go nuts if you do.
What’s with all those comments about flat Earth and eyes aren’t real?
So technicality everything we see is a lie
It’s not a lie but it’s not reality either. It’s our interpretation of reality. Our brain turns what it sees into symbols according to our experience heavily influenced by your society and our language. Seeing like an artist requires looking beyond the symbols to arrive closer to what is really there.
More evidence were in a simulation.
This really made me rethink a lot of things❤
you, i found her audience.
Wow she looks smug.
You would think she’d cured cancer.
couldn’t have said it better..
Exactly. Not likeable at all. Which interferes with her message coming across.
One of the most amazing lectures I’ve ever seen ~ TED really never disappoints!! ❤️
I don’t know how to feel about this ted talk. Maybe it’s just the way she presents it or I didn’t get it. I mean I like art and I try to look everywhere and sometimes you can see weird stuff like pineapples in the middle of the street or single shoes…
I absolutely love this message. Can’t wait to get back to work on my art.
What is her point? She’s saying nothing. She shows interesting artwork and then makes analogies to simplistic truisms.
Sounds like politician talk
I think her point is that there’s more information in what we look at then just what we see, and once you start looking for that extra information, you find out how much you were missing out on.
Exactly. This was a waste of 13 minutes
This is the kind of BS-ing skill I need when writing papers
lol, so fkin true. Would also be useful in job interviews and just allround small talk and flirting – I think, I lack this skill, so I don’t really know, but it seems very useful.
btw, reading your comment before hand sincerely saved my a lot of frustration – it allowed my to look at it the way I look at comedians, not serious lectures.
So thanks!
I didnt like her talk. She sounded smug while stating obvious banalities. Is this her daily job ? I cant really see what she has to bring to others.
I think that might be in part due to it all being artwork… I would’ve liked some real world examples. This talk was really just one message that could’ve been said in a under a minute. She did the talk well but the message she had to convey wasn’t much.
I myself was wondering: How does she get *paid* for this?! How is this a *job*?! I guess she saw something that wasn’t there and put it there!
I found her unnerving for an unknown reason. I think it’s her intense gaze, coupled with a really not genuine smile at the start.
Also, her voice isn’t captivating.
For everyone what her point is, I think her point is that there’s more information in what we look at then just what we see, and once you start looking for that extra information, you find out how much you were missing out on.
the way she talks gives me anxiety
you might have a bigger problem..