Seeing Is Believing

摘要

Earlier, I gave my recipe for a long and happy career: Find your passion and connect with people. This month, I add a dash of painting and paying it forward. "Draw a circle on the left and another on the right. Connect the two circles with a line. Now, starting at the left side of the left circle, move your pen to the left, then up, then to the right, then diagonally up and to the right,..." The class was utterly confused. A fellow student was trying to get us to draw the side view of a car without telling us what we were drawing. The class was in public speaking. The point of the exercise was to demonstrate, quite literally, how a picture is worth 1,000 words. The exercise and the point stuck with me.