Amy Herman

It's not so much about looking closely.

It's thinking about not only what do you see, but what aren't you seeing.

It's called the pertinent negative.

And the practical example I can give you is, for anyone who's a parent, you know that what your children don't say to you is just as important as what they do.

Hi.

Thank you so much for having me.

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Visual intelligence, I break it down into two categories.

It's two things.

The first is seeing what other people don't, and the other is gaining clarity from multiple perspectives.

Because I think the majority of us run around thinking, well, I see it, so this is the way it is.

And one of the things I think about all the time is that whatever I'm looking at, nobody else sees it the way I do.

And other people are seeing it in very, very different ways.

And I have a lot to gain from understanding how other people see things.

So I think when they have a high visual intelligence or a really honed visual intelligence, it's understanding that they can gain clarity from multiple perspectives and also seeing what other people don't.

It's very different.

That's not the way it is at all.

In fact, there is no absolute truth to one person's experience seeing something.

Not only is it a physiological thing where our eyes are attached to our brain and only my eyes attached to my brain see things in a certain way.

but I really believe that multiple perspectives make for better decision-making.