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- English
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About this book
An engrossing guide to seeing—and communicating—more clearly from the groundbreaking course that helps FBI agents, cops, CEOs, ER docs, and others save money, reputations, and lives.
How could looking at Monet’s water lily paintings help save your company millions? How can checking out people’s footwear foil a terrorist attack? How can your choice of adjective win an argument, calm your kid, or catch a thief?
In her celebrated seminar, the Art of Perception, art historian Amy Herman has trained experts from many fields how to perceive and communicate better. By showing people how to look closely at images, she helps them hone their “visual intelligence,” a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use properly. She has spent more than a decade teaching doctors to observe patients instead of their charts, helping police officers separate facts from opinions when investigating a crime, and training professionals from the FBI, the State Department, Fortune 500 companies, and the military to recognize the most pertinent and useful information. Her lessons highlight far more than the physical objects you may be missing; they teach you how to recognize the talents, opportunities, and dangers that surround you every day.
Whether you want to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward your loved ones, or more alert to the trove of possibilities and threats all around us, this book will show you how to see what matters most to you more clearly than ever before.
Please note: this ebook contains full-color art reproductions and photographs, and color is at times essential to the observation and analysis skills discussed in the text. For the best reading experience, this ebook should be viewed on a color device.
How could looking at Monet’s water lily paintings help save your company millions? How can checking out people’s footwear foil a terrorist attack? How can your choice of adjective win an argument, calm your kid, or catch a thief?
In her celebrated seminar, the Art of Perception, art historian Amy Herman has trained experts from many fields how to perceive and communicate better. By showing people how to look closely at images, she helps them hone their “visual intelligence,” a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use properly. She has spent more than a decade teaching doctors to observe patients instead of their charts, helping police officers separate facts from opinions when investigating a crime, and training professionals from the FBI, the State Department, Fortune 500 companies, and the military to recognize the most pertinent and useful information. Her lessons highlight far more than the physical objects you may be missing; they teach you how to recognize the talents, opportunities, and dangers that surround you every day.
Whether you want to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward your loved ones, or more alert to the trove of possibilities and threats all around us, this book will show you how to see what matters most to you more clearly than ever before.
Please note: this ebook contains full-color art reproductions and photographs, and color is at times essential to the observation and analysis skills discussed in the text. For the best reading experience, this ebook should be viewed on a color device.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Page references in italics refer to illustrations.
A
Abraham Lincoln (Gardner), 108, 108–10
accountability, 136, 248
action, objective assessment of, 69–71
Action in the Slums Morro da Providência, tree, moon, horizontal, Rio de Janeiro (JR), 116, 116–18
adaptation, 14, 87–89
biases and, 239–57
uncertainty and, 258–72
affinity bias, 243
Afghanistan war, 176
Agate, Lucy, 239–42
aircraft recognition, 31, 56
air traffic controllers, 206
Alamo (Texas), 150
Alderete, Christian, 184–85
Alexander, Jane, 44–45
Allen, David, 267
al-Shabaab, 62
American Rural Baroque (Steiner), 193, 193–94
analyzing, 14, 115–43
Android, 150
appearances, deceptive, 65
Apple, 6, 150
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe, 119–20
Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, 149–50
art. See also individual artworks
in attention development, 31–36
as communication, 179–81
discomfort caused by, 215–19
framing of, 203, 207
in observation skill development, xiv–xv, 10–14
physical perspective and, 119–27
taking time to observe, 19–22
unfinished, 266–72
articulation, 14. See also communication
Art of Manliness (McKay and McKay), 167
The Art of Perception program, xv–xvii, 14
The Art of Scientific Investigation (Beveridge), 33
assessment
art for practicing, 11–14, 19–22
autopilot vs. focus in, 14–16
distraction and, 16–18
exercising the brain in, 9–10
in prioritization, 153–59
seeing what matters and, 3–22
trusting your senses for, 18–22
assumptions vs. facts, 62–65, 79–82, 187
As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young (Steen), 1...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- Assess
- Leonardo da Vinci and Losing Your Mind
- Elementary Skills
- The Platypus and the Gentleman Thief
- Delta Employees Do It on the Fly
- What’s Hiding in Plain Sight?
- Analyze
- Keep Your Head on a Swivel
- Seeing What’s Missing
- Articulate
- Making Your Unknown Known
- Big (Naked, Obese) Sue and the High School Principal
- Adapt
- Nothing Is Black-and-White
- What to Do When You Run Out of Gurneys
- Conclusion: Master Work
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH