EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE

We have and / or will make various references to Arnheims book Visual Thinking. In reading his book this morning, I wanted to share with you this quote from page 76; it heroically describes what we all feel as we design solutions to problems.

“Perceptual problem solving has all the aspects of genuine thinking; the challenge, the productive confusion, the promising leads, the partial solutions, the disturbing contradictions, the flash appearance of a stable solution whose adequacy is self evident, the structural changes brought about by the pressure of changing total situations, the resemblance discovered among different patterns. It is, in a way, an exhilarating experience, worthy of a creature endowed with reason; and when the solution has been found there is a sense of dis-tension, of pleasure, of rest.”

So there you have it, you heroic problem solvers. There is the true measure of what you do, how you do it, and the bliss that we feel when we do it. Let’s all celebrate in dis-tension and our ability to visually reason.  Pick up a pencil and start drawing.