The Power of Visualization: How Perception Shapes Our Reality
🔬 An experiment for you to try out!
Last newsletter I was writing about the power of storyboarding and visualizing your thoughts.
In this post, I want to challenge you to an experiment. Then I will relate the idea of this post with the neuroscience and connection between storytelling and storyboarding in the next post. Are you with me?
Experiment - try this:
Look at the video below and write down as many situations as you can imagine out of what you see. What is the story behind it? (video has no sound)
What if you were a reporter talking about what happens in the video, what would you say?
I would be super interested if you could write in the comments of this post what you saw, it will get funny while seeing how many things people see out of this, believe me!
What is the meaning of this video and the idea behind it?
It is an old (1944) experimental study of apparent behavior made by psychologists Heider and Simmel to test how different persons looking at the same thing perceive it in different ways.
The geometrical figures that are moving on the screen have no reason behind them, it is a simple random movement.
So why did I ask you to do this?
Because I wanted to bring awareness to the idea that through our own perception and inner state we create our own reality and how important is to visualize and share what we see. Imagine you are in a meeting where only talking happens, with no visualization at all. How many times did it happen to you that at the end of that meeting, you do not remember what was discussed and many persons got out of it with a different interpretation of the same outcome?
Here is a book I wrote about how to bring visualization into meetings and how to get more tangible outcomes there.
These are some examples of what other people saw in this video:
if 2 guys fight, the third one is angry
3 guys playing together
one shape got angry after the dot and the other triangle left
if there is no teamwork
the dynamics of individuals
2 adults fighting and scaring the circle who is a kid
a meeting where communication is broken
Star Wars explained in under 3 minutes :)
One-phrase summary:
We are all unique and our perception is creating our own reality upon the outside world. This is why visualization and expressing our thoughts make it easier when we want to align perspectives with each other.
Resources:
Podcast Mindarchitect.ro
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