"We need different kinds of minds," Temple Grandin says. “We need these different approaches to problem solving.” (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images, Blue Tree Publishing) Are you ...

World Sketchnote Day 2026 draws attention to the growing practice of sketchnoting—a visual method of capturing ideas using ...

Like many people with autism, Temple Grandin thinks in pictures. In her new book, “Visual Thinking,” Grandin writes that she sees the world “in a series of associated visual images.” She adds it’s ...

We live in a language-dominated world that tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace - even though visual thinkers constitute a far greater ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Recent research suggests that ...

Interestingly, people good at verbal thinking often score about average on object and spatial thinking tests. Only those who excel at object or spatial thinking fare poorly on tests that demand other ...

Are you neat and tidy and learn best by reading books and listening? Or are you creative, maybe a little messy, enjoy things like puzzles or chess and prefer to learn through charts and diagrams? If ...

Re “Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All,” by Temple Grandin (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 12): As a retired associate professor of the visual arts, I applaud this essay. Because the ...

If you've heard it once, you've probably heard it a thousand times: "A picture is worth a thousand words." Recent research suggests that visual elements can increase engagement by more than 80%, which ...