How Does Clear Visualization Help Your Brain Connect Ideas?
Have you ever struggled to understand a concept until someone likened it to something else that you already understood? Perhaps they used a helpful metaphor, simile, or example. You could probably visualize what they were talking about in terms that your brain could comprehend.
The human brain accomplishes a lot by connecting ideas. It can be creative, learn new things, feel happier, and perform better. In fact, the way that the brain works is so amazing that we are building an intuitive knowledge management system that emulates it. So how does clear visualization help your brain to connect ideas?
Visualization
Visualization has been a powerful, versatile tool for a long time. It can be applied in basically any industry, field, and practice. This is because vision is the dominant sense in humans, and research estimates that 80–85% of all perception, cognition, learning, and activities are mediated through vision [1]. It’s no surprise that you understand a concept better if there’s a visual aid when it’s being explained to you.
When something is visualized well, your brain’s ability to form connections is greatly boosted because it’s designed to uptake information visually. Whether that’s data being visualized into a graph or chart, connecting ideas in your brain because you saw a well-made video, or even being able to connect information that’s scattered across different platforms that you access on your computer.
Additionally, the type of visualization where you visualize goals or projects as complete when they aren’t actually causing your brain to resolve the conflict between the truth (the project isn’t done) and what you’re visualizing (the project is done). This activates the subconscious, which works harder to find solutions to achieve the visualization. One of the ways it does this is by connecting ideas [2].
Organization
Imagine if you were trying to finish a research paper, figure out how to answer an exam question, or learn a new topic for an exam. If your thoughts were files and your brain were an office, you’d like the office to be neat, tidy, and organized so that you could find the files that you needed in order to make some connections and accomplish the task at hand.
That’s exactly why organization is so good for your brain. While you can’t exactly organize your brain physically, you can organize the world around you. Some ways that you can do this include sticking to routines and keeping your living and working space tidy.
If you ever feel like your thoughts are all a jumble, you can organize your thoughts by making them physical and then physically sorting them out. One way to do this is writing each thought out on a little piece of paper (or doing so on your device to be eco-friendly!) and then moving them around, grouping them, and drawing lines with arrows until they make sense. Similarly, this is why mind maps work so well.
Taking notes, creating lists, making pie charts, anyway that you can organize information into something that you can constantly refer to will really help your brain to connect ideas.
How do they help your brain?
Visualization and organization go hand-in-hand to accomplish many things. When your brain can make connections as effectively and efficiently as possible, it can create, understand, learn, and pioneer. When your brain can make connections, you can solve your exam question, learn that new topic, carry out your research effectively, and so much more.
The very basis of creativity is making connections. Something is considered creative because it’s not been seen before, that’s really it. We made a connection between the brain and a research management tool and that’s creative, but when you think about it, it isn’t such a far leap, is it? That’s because the information is there for anyone to link. It just takes making those connections to create something brand new.
Here at Scrintal, we believe that everything in life is somehow connected and that the future lies in creating smooth connections between our minds and knowledge. We’re building the most intuitive collaborative platform for researchers, students, and writers by emulating the way your brain works. Our system means that you can effortlessly organize and create connections, and work alone or seamlessly with your team. Our goal is to simplify the link between your mind and this complex pool of information so that you can realize your full potential in uncovering new findings. If you have any questions or want more info, get in touch with us today!
Sources
[1] https://www.brainline.org/article/vision-our-dominant-sense
[2] https://www.jackcanfield.com/blog/visualize-and-affirm-your-desired-outcomes-a-step-by-step-guide/
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