How drawing helps you think | Ralph Ammer | TEDxTUM

You don't have to be an artist to draw! In this beautifully illustrated talk, Ralph Ammer shows how drawing your thoughts can be a powerful tool for improving your thinking, creativity and communication. He wants you to believe in your drawing abilities, and provides numerous exercises to help you get started.

[megg.]

"If I cannot draw it, it probably means that I don't understand it yet." PERFECT

[victoriousvalentine]

”This didn’t come out like a poem, we shouldn’t speak”. Brilliant!

[jordantoronto]

Love that! “We don’t find beauty. We make the world beautiful by paying attention.”

[stacyeleanza]

"We don't find beauty, we make beauty by paying attention to what we see." ...Lovely

[avatarthelaststeambender]

"We tend to draw what we already know, and not what we see"
"Because we don't find beauty, we make the world more beautiful by paying attention"

These quotes above are very meaningful and it describes things perfectly. This ted talk also describes the way in which I visually think, or without words. It was always hard to explain to people you can think in terms of other things besides written or spoken language. This does an amazing job of capturing the way art changes a person's way of thinking!

[egw]

I have this weird thing where when I draw and listen to a podcast, later when some time has passed, days and weeks, I remember vividly the content and stories of the podcast just by looking at the drawing.


All I need to do is look at the drawing and everything comes flooding back (I do not try consciously to remember the podcast, it is just an automatic recall).


It makes me wonder if there is a complex cognitive mind mapping happening that as drawers we are not even aware of. And I also wonder how this can be harnessed to improve memory.

[annbaumgardner]

as a therapist, social psychologist and artist, I found this to be extraordinary! Thank you! I want more!

[tedallenwolff]

After reading "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" 40 years ago I began to draw and it became the best way to express and confirm my most cherished values and goals. I don't draw any longer but find peace and comfort from these pictures displayed throughout my house.

[MANIAKRA]

Wow, not even done watching yet and this is a great talk. As an artist, I approve of his message.

[Kathy-J-]

I'm an artist but life's been distracting. Going to begin drawing every day
Thank you.
Inspiring & Thought provoking

[gajapozar]

I love how he said "Like and architect does. When she..." instead of using "he". just for one time. I love it

[easyrider]

Absolutely genius. Among the 100s of TED videos with exaggerated titles, you'll find a gem like this. More than convinced drawing will make an impact.

[shabellah]

I always told people that my diary was my drawings and they never understood that that's how I let emotions and thoughts out and now I'm learning I'm not actually crazy !

[tessellatiaartilery]

What a remarkable talk. I wish I could give it multiple Likes. So refreshing to hear drawing talked about as a skill like writing or speaking rather than sidelined or elevated as an artistic activity for only trained, eccentric, dramatic people. Wonderful speaker too. Thank you.

[josenaarquieta]

I'm an artist and have purchased an art journal. I've been stumped about what to draw in it. This makes it so much clearer. Each page does not have to be a work of art. I will use the 5 points to get me started.

[warrenwang]

I like drawing and doodling with my mind. Whatever it’s an art or not, it’s my love.

[mireilleblanc]

"I stored thoses memories in my mind, and not on my camera" ++++

[jova]

This is why I draw. Helps me to focus. Focus is hard for me to do. For the last two years I came in fourth in my company in sales. I work in a very rural community and I win over urban sales people. This started when I started drawing at work. Thanks for this video.

[manthasagittarius]

This is wonderful, one of the best little ruminations I've heard in years. This man is one of the very fortunate with a kind of synaesthesia, or something related, in which the boundary between the verbal and spatial is fluid and thought in that space is generative. This is a keeper for your private collection of meditations for freshening the mind.

[skylamariecostello]

“creativity is like breathing. u take in ideas & knowledge, & u combine it to new ideas that u made.”❤️‍🔥