Invisibilia

BONUS: Falling Off a Cliff

6 snips
Jan 23, 2015
Ask episode
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
ADVICE

Use Vivid Imagery To Form Your Click

  • Daniel Kish teaches concrete, imagery-based techniques to produce effective clicks, like imagining licking peanut butter off the roof of your mouth.
  • Using vivid sensory images helps students form the exact mouthshape and rhythm Kish recommends for echolocation.
ANECDOTE

Learning A Click Later In Life

  • Julian Bell learned echolocation from Daniel Kish and finally produced a reliable click using his instruction about the click sound.
  • She had been blind since birth and only discovered echolocation at age 38, after which she began lessons with Kish.
ANECDOTE

Letting Go Led To A Dangerous Fall

  • After mastering clicks, Julian tried to stop holding others' arms and practice independence, which created fear and tension in her family.
  • While hiking with Daniel in Los Angeles she slipped and tumbled down a ravine, fortunately surviving with bruises after a friend helped stop her fall.
Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode
Get the app