You Have to Have Mentoring

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I'm a big believer in exposing kids to lots of different things so that you can find your thing. But then you also have to develop it, and that's where you have to have mentoring. You've got to work on always continually learning. I wrote in visual thinking engineers calculate risk. Visual thinkers like me see risk. And what I learned, why Fukushima burned up, I'm going, how could you not do this? So the mathematicians did a great job of making it earthquake proof but they hadn't visualized water coming in and flooding the site. Watertight doors would have saved it.

Temple Grandin was born in 1947 at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the lexicon, at a time when autism was not well understood, and since she didn’t develop speech until much later than most children she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people around her who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive and explore her talents and abilities. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, all about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.