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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Why Diagrams Are Better Than Language

There's still a bias, I think, in publishing towards language rather than toward diagrams. Diagrams also allow huge numbers of inferences. So certainly on the teaching side, diagrams can help enormously in almost any field. But we found that producing diagrams is a good way to learn.

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