277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Temple Grandin didn’t develop speech until much later than most children, and she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.

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0:06.0	P on down into the middle of the parties and
0:08.0	And the cool, we're gonna be cool, we're in a bit bit. They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 277. Oh, I love your book.
0:45.0	anything that explores the concepts of different minds, different ways that minds are constructed and make sense of the world.
0:55.6	I want to put this one quote I think is a great way to start. My mind is not a raft on a sea of words.
1:02.2	It's an ocean of images. Fantastic. What does that mean,
1:05.8	temple granted? Well, everything I think about is a picture. Like, for example, I was just over at my student's seminar and they had some Mexican food which I had brought home and then all of a sudden I got this picture of Mexican food on the car seat and I said I better run out in the garage right now and get that out of the car
1:24.1	as I had forgotten to bring it in. That's just a very simple example of usual thinking
1:29.2	that I just did right before doing this interview. That is the voice of the great Temple Grandin, the absolute phenomenon that is Temple Grandin, the
1:41.8	absolute phenomenon that is temple grandon, the industrial engineer and PhD animal scientists and autism activists who was played by Claire Danes in an HBO movie about Temple's life which earned
1:57.1	Claire Danes in Emmy for her performance as Temple in that movie which was
2:01.4	titled very simply Grandin.
2:04.1	I'm Temple Grandin.
2:10.8	She's an amazing visual thinker.
2:15.0	Can you bring everything you've seen to your mind?
2:18.0	Sure. Can't you?
2:20.0	Temple was born in the 60s when autism was really misunderstood.
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