The power of the word
Some time ago someone really smart told me the concept of writing is overrated, and guess what she was right. After some thinking I was intrigued with the idea of not having to write anymore, this is mainly because writing is not my strongest point. People have two parts of brain the right for all the creative things and the left part for all the boring facts like writing. I myself use the right part most of the day, I’m left handed, can’t remember names so well, and my spelling is not even worth a C-. And to show this fact I won’t use my IPaul plugin to fix all the spelling in this blogpost.
I also heard about how people learn the best, here is the list of percentages.
You remember 10% of what you read, 20% of what you see and 30% of what you hear. But did you know you remember 90% of what you teach others? That means the only people that really get smarter on school are the teacher. Ok the kids have to do a presentation themselves one or two times on school but if your like me you know how to avoid those.So the best way to learn is simply to teach the things you just heard about and seen yourself. But the point here is is that text is indeed overrated in its effectiveness, you only remember 10% of it after one time, this means that a normal person has to read it at least 10 times to fully remember it, or at last that’s what i think. And if you look at it closely you can hopefully figure out that the education system of the world is one big flaw.
Now back on track, looking at an image makes us remember 20% and its a lot more easy to read an image then it is to read 1000 words. Some time ago I read the book “how to see” it has little text and lots of images in it, for me its the ideal book its easy to read and you can get a good example of how people think by just looking at an image. This is great I can remember more of what is in that book then I can of the newspaper I just read, or should I say scanned over in the search for some funny info, this time Iran caught some spy pigeons btw.
So now its time to figure out how it could have gone so wrong that we people only learn to use the left side of our brain in schools and learn only words. Not that words are all wrong they bring over a detailed description of a subject, but try to also use more images.
One Response to “The power of the word”
By Wiske on Oct 21, 2008
Yes! Use more images! OR let people do things by themselves! Let them figure out how things work! It’s what we do at CMD, we get an assignment and we learn what we need to learn in order to be able to actually create what we want to create. I guess this way doesn’t work for everybody but it sure does for the people whose right-half of the brain is developed! Let those left-brain-half people read, we do the creative thinking >:]