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About Visual Thinking Magic | Visual Thinking Magic

About

Founded in August 2011, Visual Thinking Magic is designed to help you revolutionize the way you think and solve life’s most difficult problems using unique visual thinking tools, techniques and strategies that are built upon a solid visual thinking framework.

The Remarkable Properties of Visual Thinking

Through the application of specific visual thinking techniques and strategies you will improve your ability to think more critically and creatively about the events and circumstances in your life. This will likewise lead you to generate better and more innovative ideas to the challenges you face, thusly improving your ability to make more effective decisions, and subsequently enhancing your chances of success in any field of endeavor.
Visual Thinking will provide you with the platform you need to overcome information overload , confusion and overwhelm — resulting from poor thinking habits, while providing you with practical ways to overcome roadblocks that are preventing you from accomplishing your goals and objectives.

An Unfair Competitive Advantage

Visual Thinking is the next evolutionary step along the journey towards maximizing your fullest potential as a creative being. It is designed with the intention to shift your perspective and understanding of your world and subsequently provide you with an unfair competitive advantage in both a business environment and in life.
Whether you’re a business professional, student, life coach, leader, manager or simply have a desire to gain the most from your innate abilities to think visually, than Visual Thinking Magic is the solution you have been waiting for.

The Visual Thinking Journey

This site isn’t designed to simply provide you with a list of visual thinking techniques and strategies. Instead its purpose is to take you on a journey through the process and framework of visual thinking that will help you to dramatically shift your understanding of your world and the circumstances that are shaping your life.
The articles, videos and audios found here will provide you with both a macro overview as well as a micro view of the dynamics and interchanging elements of the visual thinking process. Furthermore, case studies and practical examples will give you the reference material you need to start applying these visual thinking practices into your own life and business.

Ongoing Research and Development

The process of visual thinking is as much of a journey for me as it is for you. I’m testing, experimenting, making mistakes and transforming the process as I make my way along this journey. In fact, everything you see here is a work in progress — like an experimental lab that’s testing the viability of numerous elements that help improve how we think and solve problems on a daily basis.
All this experimentation is being built around a solid visual thinking framework that is being used as a platform to help provide you with the foundations you need to apply visual thinking into any and every area of your life and business as quickly and easily as possible.
Some experiments will obviously go haywire, while others will become resounding successes. It’s all just a part of the experimentation process — a process that has led to remarkable scientific discoveries over the course of hundreds of years. Whether, this turns out to be one of them, is not the right question to ask. The right question to ask is whether it has the potential to help you to transform your business and life in remarkable ways. And the answer to that question is a resounding, YES!
Because the focus is on experimentation, your feedback and suggestions are highly valued and appreciated. Please therefore feel free to comment under each post and provide us with your views and opinions on how we can help build the visual thinking framework to better serve your needs.

Why Visual Thinking Magic?

• What is the connection between visual thinking and magic?
• Why are we using magic as a metaphor for visual thinking?

To learn the answers to these questions and more, please read the article that explores the connection between visual thinking and magic.

I’m a Beginner… Where Do I Start?

If you’re a visual thinking novice, than it’s important you gain a solid background and understanding of the visual thinking process before launching into practical examples. If this sounds like you, than please view the visual thinking archive page where you will find all articles listed under helpful and relevant categories.

Who Produces this Content?

Visual Thinking Magic was launched in August 2011 by Adam Sicinski (qualified life coach) who is the founder of a unique visual learning tool known as an IQ Matrix. Adam is also the creator of an all-encompassing life coaching / self-improvement chart that explores the psychology of success and achievement. For more information about this chart, please see the MasterMind Matrix.
Read more about Adam Sicinski.

How to Receive Updates?

If you would like to receive regular updates when new articles, videos and podcasts are posted on the site, than please subscribe to the Visual Thinking Magic RSS Feed. Alternatively you can also receive updates via Email.
Visual Thinking Magic also has a dedicated Facebook page where the latest visual and creative thinking news and updates are posted on a weekly basis.
If you would like more information or have any other questions that weren’t answered here, please feel free to contact us using the contact form.

The Power of the Word "Because" To Get People To Do Stuff | Psychology Today

The Power of the Word "Because" To Get People To Do Stuff | Psychology Today

Using the word “because” and giving a reason resulted in significantly more compliance. This was true even when the reason was not very compelling (“because I have to make copies"). The researchers hypothesize that people go on “automatic” behavior or “mindlessness” as a form of a heuristic, or short-cut. And hearing the word “because” followed by a reason (no matter how lame the reason is), causes us to comply.

They also repeated the experiment for a request to copy 20 pages rather than five. In that case, only the “because I’m in a rush” reason resulted in compliance.

So what does this all mean?:

When the stakes are low people will engage in automatic behavior. If your request is small then follow the request with the word "because" and give any reason.

If the stakes are high, then there is a little more resistance, but still not too much. Use the word "because" and try to come up with at least a slightly more compelling reason.

How Focus Exercises Improve Emotional Intelligence | Psychology Today

How Focus Changed my Thinking about Emotional Intelligence | Psychology Today

The prefrontal circuitry that focuses the mind has another role: It also calms the body from stress arousal. These children were training their brains to be both more concentrated and to recover more quickly from upsetting emotions (which is the operational definition of resilience).

Those two skills heighten a child’s readiness to learn. They also enhance their emotional intelligence (EI). Here’s why.

EI refers to two kinds of focus. First: an inward awareness of our thoughts and our feelings, and applying that in managing our upsets and focus on our goals. Second: a focus on others, to empathize and understand them, and on the basis of this to have effective interactions and relationships.

What I had not realized until now was how essential the basic skills of attention—focus—are in building these skills.

Linda Lantieri, head of the Inner Resilience Program, which brought the breathing exercise to the school along with a host of other emotional intelligence skill-builders tells me that when children strengthen their focusing abilities in this way, it speeds up by a year or two their acquisition of the rest of the EI skill set.

When I spoke to the teacher of these second-graders, she told me about a day when scheduling glitches made them skip the breathing exercise. The result: the kids were all over the place.
With young people growing up in a world of distractions as never before, it’s time to teach attention skills, the fundamental ability in readiness to learn.

PSI Behavioral Charts » Team Excellence » Houston, TX

PSI Behavioral Charts » Team Excellence » Houston, TX

Behavioral Strengths Grid

After the PSI Survey is completed, each participant is presented with their Behavioral Strengths Grid, based on the Hippocratic Model. Every person is a combination of 4 dominant personalities: Doer, Talker, Counter, Thinker. Unlike similar instruments that use this grid model to "label" people into one of four categories, PSI recognizes that the complexity of our personality does not fit into a single dimension. The resulting feedback allows participants to see their diverse interests and strengths in relative proportion to one another, as well as gain greater appreciation and respect for people who are different.
"PSI recognizes the complexity of an individual's personality"