The hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns and abstractions
Temple Grandin is a professor, best-selling author and international speaker on autism and animal behaviour. She has also had a successful career consulting on livestock handling , equipment design and animal welfare. However, this short description does not do justice to the impact that she has had in these fields over the years.
In this latest book, she explores the different ways in which people think and describes her experience in developing her own awareness of this. She writes that the book grew out of two ‘major revelations’, with one relating to how her visual thinking benefits her work with animal processing plants and the other in relation to building construction, that led her to conclude that there has been a failure to encourage and develop the talents and skills of people who think in different ways.
Chapters include:
- Where are all the clever engineers?
- Genius and Neurodiversity
- Visualising risk to prevent disasters
- Animal consciousness and visual thinking
This is a fascinating book that is very readable and packed full of insights into subjects as diverse as the human-animal relationship, creative thinking, dyslexia and ‘addled strangeness’.
Essential reading!
Author: T. Grandin
Publisher: Rider (An imprint of Ebury Publishing)
ISBN: 978-1-84604-687-2
£16.99