This book uses art to teach you to notice your surroundings more, which is very interesting. The basic premise is there’s a lot of things that we miss, but can be quite important. The two biggest ideas in this book for me:
- Train yourself to be more visually perceptive by looking at art, and trying to notice every detail. This seems trivial but often we miss things. Now in the real world, do the same thing and see things in a different way.
- Our experiences shape how we perceive things, so it’s important to describe things objectively rather than subjectively. Do not make assumptions, rather, describe only the facts of what you see. From a picture you can’t infer a person is “homeless”, but rather that he’s “lying on a street next to a shopping cart”.
