The hidden gifts of visual thinking with Temple Grandin

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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When she was just 18, scientist, industrial designer, animal behaviorist, and autism activist Temple Grandin created one of her most well-known inventions: the hug machine. Inspired by the squeeze chute–a device that holds and soothes cattle before they’re handled–Temple designed a device for her and other hypersensitive people who want to experience being held without overstimulation. In this episode, Temple talks about her long, multifaceted career, and how her neurodivergent mind and its gift for identifying patterns and thinking visually has helped her pioneer groundbreaking research. She also explains how all kinds of brains can contribute to creating knowledge, and shares how neurodiversity is a strength across many disciplines. Temple’s latest book, “Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions,” is out now.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.0	Let's talk about this war on white people.
0:05.0	That's a pro-quiling, it's good for you.
0:07.0	Bill the Keystone pipeline, deport illegals, build the wall.
0:10.0	I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial,
0:13.0	a new five-part series from WNMC's On the Media,
0:17.0	about how the American right came to dominate Talk Radio
0:21.0	and how one company is launching a conservative media empire
0:25.0	from the airwaves.
0:26.0	Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.
0:34.0	Welcome to the Ted interview.
0:36.0	I'm your host, Stephen Johnson.
0:38.0	If you're a regular listener to this podcast,
0:41.0	you know that one of the things we really try to embrace here
0:45.0	is having guests from a wide range of disciplines.
0:48.0	I mean, just as season alone, we've had a novelist, a cosmologist,
0:51.0	a TV sitcom writer, a surgeon, and a cartoonist.
0:55.0	Intellectual diversity and multidisciplinary thinking,
0:59.0	those are core values for us.
1:01.0	But there's another related kind of diversity
1:05.0	that has become an important part of the conversation
1:07.0	in recent years, and that's neurodiversity.
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