Unlock Your Creativity with Visualization: The Power of Spatial Thinking
Summary
TLDR本视频介绍了空间思维的概念及其重要性,并探讨了如何通过空间思维来提高我们的思考能力。视频中,演讲者分享了他在阅读Andy M. Pahl的书籍《心智的延伸》时的洞见,特别是如何利用空间思维来改善个人知识管理系统。演讲者提到,人类天生就是空间思考者,从古希腊的记忆宫殿方法到现代的图示化思考工具,如Obsidian和Xcoli Brain,都是利用空间思维来组织和理解信息的例子。视频还提供了一些实用的建议,如将想法可视化并放置在物理空间中,以促进创造力和深入理解。演讲者鼓励观众尝试将他们的想法通过绘图或使用物理工具如便签纸来实现空间化,以增强思维的深度和广度。
Takeaways
- 🧠 空间思维的重要性:人类作为空间思考者进化而来,这与我们的祖先作为狩猎采集者的生活方式密切相关。
- 🎨 Obsidian图谱视图的美学与洞察力:Obsidian的图谱视图不仅美观,还能提供对知识库的深刻洞察。
- 🔍 局部图谱视图的局限性:尽管Obsidian的Vault级别的图谱视图非常有用,但局部图谱视图对于演讲者来说并不实用。
- 📈 Xcoli Brain视图的结构性:Xcoli Brain提供了清晰的结构,包括父节点、子节点和横向思考,有助于更好地组织和理解信息。
- 🌐 语言与空间思维:我们的语言反映了空间思维,如“达到高远目标”或“未来在前方”等表达方式。
- 🏰 记忆宫殿技巧:古代希腊的记忆宫殿技巧通过在熟悉的地方留下记忆锚点来帮助记忆,现代记忆冠军也使用这种方法。
- 🧐 早期记忆的缺失:可能是因为我们在婴儿时期无法自主移动,缺少了记忆的“脚手架”。
- 📝 写作与思考:写作是思考的一种形式,能帮助我们更好地管理和理解我们的思想。
- 🤔 可视化思考的价值:通过绘制和可视化思考,我们可以发现和包含那些在文字中未被明确表达的细节。
- 📌 将想法外化:通过将想法放置在物理空间中,如便签或白板上,可以提高我们的思考能力和创造力。
- 🌟 未来的知识管理系统:未来的知识管理系统可能会采用空间驱动的方式,如使用幻想地图或游戏环境来组织和理解信息。
- 🔄 创新的思考方式:通过在物理空间中布局和操作想法,而不仅仅是打字和线性文档,可以促进创新思维。
Q & A
视频中提到的“空间思维”是什么?
-空间思维是指人类利用空间概念来组织和处理信息的能力。视频中提到,人类作为空间思考者已经进化,这种思维方式与我们祖先的狩猎采集生活方式和生活在大草原上需要对周围环境有强烈理解的需求有关。
为什么作者认为Obsidian的图视图对他使用Obsidian的方式产生了变革?
-作者认为Obsidian的图视图为他提供了空间定位,使得他能够在空间上组织和理解他的笔记和文档。通过颜色和层次结构,他能够清晰地看到不同笔记之间的关系和分类。
在Obsidian中,作者为什么觉得局部图视图对他没有帮助?
-作者觉得Obsidian的局部图视图在页面上只有一两个链接时有用,但如果链接更多,他就发现这个视图并不实用。特别是因为局部图视图中的方向不明确,且当触摸节点时,图形会移动,使得定位变得困难。
视频中提到的“Xcoli脑图”是什么,它如何帮助作者?
-Xcoli脑图是一种提供了结构化视图的工具,它显示了父节点在顶部,子节点在底部,横向思考在侧面。它还包括了笔记之间的本体论或连接描述,以及不同颜色和图标来代表不同类型的文档,帮助作者在空间上定位自己的笔记。
为什么人类语言的使用反映了我们的空间思维?
-我们的语言中充满了空间隐喻,如“达到高远目标”、“未来在前面”、“过去在后”等,这些都是空间思维的证据。我们的语言表达反映了我们如何使用空间概念来描述非物理的抽象概念。
‘记忆宫殿’是如何帮助记忆的?
-记忆宫殿是一种古老的记忆方法,通过将熟悉的空间位置与需要记忆的信息关联起来,以帮助记忆。记忆冠军使用这种方法通过在心中走过一个熟悉的地点,如学校、办公室或家,并在每个步骤留下他们想要记住的信息片段。
为什么我们可能不记得我们的童年早期?
-根据视频中的一个理论,我们可能不记得童年早期是因为那时我们还不能自主移动,别人在移动我们,因此我们没有可以用来挂靠记忆的东西,没有支撑记忆的框架。
如何通过绘制来提高我们的思维能力?
-通过绘制,我们可以将思维具体化,这有助于我们发现和包含那些我们甚至没有意识到的细节。绘制过程中,我们可能会不自觉地记录下一些细节,这些细节在我们回顾时可以提供更多的洞察。
如何将空间思维应用于知识管理系统?
-可以通过将想法外化到物理环境中,如使用便利贴、Xcoli画布或白板,来实践空间思维。通过在更大的物理表面上布局想法,可以触发不同层次的思考和定位,从而帮助我们以不同的方式思考和引用信息。
视频中提到的游戏‘城镇建造者’(Townscraper)如何与知识管理系统联系起来?
-作者想象‘城镇建造者’游戏中的不同部分可以代表文档库或文件夹,不同的区域可以代表书签笔记、项目笔记、人物页面、创意想法等。通过在不同的建筑物和房间中定位相关信息,可以在空间上定位自己,从而更好地理解和管理知识。
为什么作者推荐将想法外化到物理空间中?
-将想法外化到物理空间,如便利贴或画布上,可以帮助我们从仅仅打字和创建线性文档的局限中跳出来,通过创建绘图和在物理空间中布局想法,可以增强创造力,更好地理解和组织我们的思维。
Outlines
🎨 空间思维与Obsidian使用心得
在视频的第一部分,演讲者介绍了空间思维的概念,并分享了如何通过阅读Annie Murphy Paul的《思维的一页》这本书来理解空间思维的重要性。演讲者通过展示Obsidian的图形视图,讨论了如何利用空间思维来组织个人知识管理系统。提到了Obsidian的图视图美观且富有洞察力,但也指出了局部图视图的局限性。此外,还介绍了excoli brain视图,它提供了结构化的空间布局,有助于更好地理解和导航文档之间的关系。
🌐 语言与空间思维的关系
第二部分深入探讨了语言如何体现我们的空间思维,通过举例说明了我们的语言习惯如何与空间概念相连。接着,演讲者提到了古希腊的“记忆宫殿”技巧,说明了如何利用空间记忆来提高记忆能力。此外,还讨论了为什么我们很难回忆起童年早期的记忆,这与我们在那个时期缺乏移动能力有关。最后,演讲者建议通过将想法外化到物理环境中,如便签或白板,来练习空间思维。
🧠 利用空间思维提升思考能力
在第三段中,演讲者提出了利用空间思维来提升思考能力的方法。首先,通过详细想象一只老虎的例子,说明了我们如何在脑海中构建图像,但往往忽略了细节。演讲者强调,通过绘制和可视化,我们可以捕捉到甚至自己都没有意识到的细节。接着,提出了将想法外化到物理表面上的方法,如使用Post-it便签或大型画布,以帮助我们从外部视角审视和理解我们的想法。此外,还提出了将空间思维应用于未来知识管理系统的设想,如通过游戏《城镇建造者》和《巫师》等例子,展示了如何利用空间布局来组织和导航文档和信息。
📝 总结与建议
在视频的结尾部分,演讲者总结了空间思维的重要性,并鼓励观众将他们的想法外化到物理空间中,比如使用便签或excoli canvas。演讲者认为,通过在物理空间中布局想法,而不仅仅是打字和创建线性文档,可以激发创造力。最后,演讲者表达了对观众的感谢,并期待在下一个视频中再次见面。
Mindmap
Keywords
💡空间思维
💡Obsidian
💡Xcoli脑图
💡记忆宫殿
💡外部化思维
💡知识管理
💡空间定位
💡创造性
💡线性文档
💡最小可行产品
💡幻想地图
Highlights
介绍了思维导图和空间思维的概念。
解释了为什么人类是空间思考者,以及这对知识管理的意义。
讨论了Obsidian的图形视图如何帮助用户以艺术和洞察力的方式查看他们的笔记。
分析了xcoled绘图在Obsidian中的作用和如何帮助用户以不同的方式使用笔记。
探讨了本地图形视图的局限性以及它如何影响用户对信息的定位。
解释了空间思维背后的理论,包括我们祖先的生活方式如何塑造了我们的空间认知。
讨论了语言如何反映我们的空间思维,以及我们如何使用空间隐喻来描述抽象概念。
介绍了古代希腊的记忆宫殿方法,以及现代记忆冠军如何使用这种方法。
探讨了为什么我们很难记住童年早期的事情,以及移动性在记忆中的作用。
讨论了通过绘画和绘制来外化思维的好处,以及它如何帮助我们发现思维中的细节。
提出了将思维外化到物理环境中的方法,例如使用便利贴或白板。
通过电视剧《Manifest》和《Dark》的例子,说明了将信息外化到墙上如何帮助我们以不同的方式思考。
设想了一个由空间驱动的未来知识管理系统,其中游戏《Townscraper》和《The Witcher》被用作类比。
讨论了使用奇幻地图来更好地理解我们的想法和概念的好处。
总结了视频的核心观点,即通过将思维外化到物理空间来提升创造力。
Transcripts
hey everyone in today's video I'd like
to walk you through this mind map to
talk about spatial thinking
why the topic you might ask and I'm glad
you asked so in cohort 2 of the visual
thinking Workshop we are creating a book
on a page for the extended Mind by Annie
Murphy Paul and as I was reading the
book I finally understood why ex-coli
brain is transforming the way I use
obsidian
so obsidian has a beautiful graph view
when you look at your Vault on the graph
view it is really a work of art and it's
also insightful so here you can see the
different colors greens are the notes
that I imported from my previous
personal Knowledge Management System
called the brain
Reds are the xcoled row drawings and the
other colors are the other documents in
My Vault and for example what you can
see here is that even though I've been
using obsidian for two years
my old notes from the brain are still in
a separate cluster now there are many
connections with the new notes but I can
definitely see that there's a part
that's green and there's a part that has
a different color also I can see that I
have excolil drawings all over the place
so I can see that I use let's call it
raw extensively for different purposes
now even though the graph View at the
Vault level is extremely helpful I find
the local graph view completely useless
in obsidian maybe if I have one or two
links on a page this is useful but
otherwise unfortunately for me this
craft view is not very useful
particularly because I don't see the
directions here and also this graph
moves around when you touch a node so
things get into different locations it's
hard to orient myself on this graph View
now if I look at the ex call it brain
View for the same document then here you
can see that xcoli brain provides me
with structure I have the parent nodes
at the top I have the child nodes so
nodes further down in the hierarchy at
the bottom I have the lateral thoughts
on the side so these are nodes that are
in a different hierarchy but are related
to my note on the lines I have the
ontology of the notes or the connections
this means it's a description of the
connection like related to example of
source author Etc
and then I also have different colors
and icons for the different notes on
this graph representing the different
type of documents I'm looking at which
also helps me Orient myself and this
view always looks the same for the same
page things don't move around it's
organized in alphabetical order I know
what I need to look on this side I know
what I'm going to find up top and I know
what I'm going to find down in the
bottom this gives me a spatial
orientation in my world
so let's look at some of the theory
behind why this works and some of the
theory that I learned from Andy Murphy
Paul's book
so I think the biggest learning is that
we as humans have evolved to be spatial
thinkers the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
but also living on the Savannah
required our ancestors to have a very
strong understanding of their
surroundings to be able to navigate in a
spatial environment and to be
intelligent in that environment so for
this reason
this approach to thinking is actually
very far from natural for us
now writing your ideas down is One Step
better and I tend to agree with Jordan
Peterson that writing is thinking and it
is the best thing that we can do to
people is to teach them to write down
their thoughts it is a very important
skill because you get your thoughts on
paper and you can externalize your
thoughts you can look at them and you
can manage them on paper
but
in reality we've evolved to be
spatial thinkers and this View From The
Minority Report is closer to what is
natural for us as thinkers
so let's look at some of the additional
Theory so first of all the language we
use the way we speak is an Evidence of
our spatial thinking because we reach
for a lofty goal the future is in front
of us or it's up ahead the past is
behind us and we Endeavor to stay on top
of things just a couple of examples of
how our language represents our spatial
thinking
the ancient Greeks had this
method called the method of Loki or the
Memory Palace according to the legend
simonidas of Sears a Greek poet was
attending a dinner a banquet at a large
Hall
and the hole collapsed and for some
reason simonidas survived and he was
able to identify the bodies of the
people who were killed in the accident
by remembering who was sitting where and
using this memory he was able to
identify each of the people in The Ruins
memory Champions use the method of Loki
to remember a long sequence of cards or
numbers they imagine a place that they
are very familiar with maybe their
school their office their home and they
imagine walking up the stairs opening
the door meeting the doorman walking
down the corridor opening the door to
their office looking at their colleagues
sitting at the desk and so on so they
have this strong Visual and at each step
of the way they leave a piece of
information they want to remember so for
example they leave the ace at the the
stairs and then they leave the Queen of
Spades at the entrance door and then
they hand another cart to the doorman
Etc and then they need to remember they
visually or in their mind they walk
through this area they walk through the
corridors and they're able to retrieve
information using that and according to
one of the theories and you can have
your own opinion whether this theory is
correct or not one reason why we don't
remember our early childhood is because
at that time we are not mobile we are
not able to move ourselves other people
are moving us around and as a result we
don't have something to hang our
memories on we don't have the
scaffolding to remember
so let's now move on to how we can use
all of this knowledge to improve our
thinking so first of all imagine this
example close your eyes and picture a
tiger in detail picture its eyes its
nose its paws its tail build a strong
image of that tiger in your head
and when you have it then answer me this
question
how many stripes does the tiger have
I'm pretty sure you're not able to
answer that question and that is because
you didn't draw your picture you only
had a mental picture and however
detailed a mental picture is you will
not have the details of the number of
stripes and interestingly when we think
and we draw we draw details that we
don't even articulate for ourselves it
is quite often that Engineers or
scientists go back to their drawings and
observe ideas that they weren't
consciously thinking but their hands
Drew those details on the picture and
this is why when you're thinking
something and you're creating a drawing
you're creating a visual of that idea
then you are going to include details
you're going to include orientations of
that information
that you've weren't articulating for
yourself and when you observe serve it
in detail then you're going to learn
more about your thoughts you're going to
understand your thoughts in more detail
so one way to practice spatial thinking
is to offload your ideas onto a physical
environment for example put it on
Post-it notes or you can use the X
collateral canvas for that or the
obsidian canvas or you can use a
whiteboard really I think your options
are very broad but upload your ideas
onto a physical surface the bigger the
surface the better because if you need
to move your torso to look at the
information that is also going to
trigger a different level of thinking
and orientation and use this to gain an
external view to become detached from
your thoughts and to have an external
viewpoint on them
for example some examples of this I just
took two pictures from two series that I
was watching over the past year one is
from manifest and here you can see the
passengers on the airplane on the wall
here and the other are two screenshots
from dark where the family tree and all
the surrounding information is on the
hotel wall and in the wall or on the
wall of the bunker
so externalizing information this way
will help you think and reference this
information in a different way
so now dream with me for a moment and
let's see how this could be turned into
a knowledge management system of the
future that is spatially driven so the
first example I have in mind I've taken
this from the game townscraper this is a
silly little game you can build a town
for yourself the town looks beautiful
and it's a very relaxing gameplay I like
to play with this
and imagine this that the different
parts of this town are actually document
stores they are kind of like folders and
then you have your book notes you have
your project notes your people Pages
your creative ideas in different
districts of the town and maybe if you
zoom in to the Garden of one of my
projects then you will see that I will
have the minutes of meeting in one place
the decision login another the project
Charter in one place the design
documents the change requests Etc in
different locations and whichever
building and room I go to I find the
relevant information and I'm orienting
myself in this spatial way
or another game I like to play with or
liked to play that couple of years ago
was The Witcher and again imagine that
here you're walking in a very
beautifully crafted environment and
imagine that the different characters
The Witcher meets are AI generated
characters that represent different
documents you have in your Vault and you
are having a dialogue with your
documents in the vault and you're going
to different towns and different houses
and buildings and meeting different
characters that represent projects and
people and other thoughts that you might
have in your world
and then finally this is something that
I've talked about in another video the
fantasy maps of content imagine using a
fantasy map a fantasy land of your
own Vault and placing items here placing
your documents here and using this
spatial representation to better
understand your thoughts and ideas
so in summary I think this is why I find
EX call it brain even though it's very
far from perfect it is
sort of a
minimum viable product a
proof of concept that I created but ever
since I've created it this has
transformed the way I use obsidian it
has given me this spatial orientation in
My Vault and
I find it transformational and finally
now I understand why so if there's one
thing that you want to take away from
this video I recommend you take away
this idea of externalizing your thoughts
placing them in a physical space maybe
on Post-it notes or maybe on an ex call
it raw canvas and start to work with
your ideas in that physical space take a
step out of just typing text and having
linear documents instead create drawings
lay out your ideas in a physical space
and boost your creativity this way
so that's all I wanted to share today I
hope you found this video inspiring and
helpful and I hope to see you in my next
video
thank you
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