Prince Rahul's Key Ideas from The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition)
by Dan Roam

1. Collect everything we can to look at—the more the better.

2. Have a place where we can lay out everything and really look at it all, side by side. 

3. Always define a basic coordinate system to give us clear orientation and position.

4. Find ways to cut ruthlessly from everything our eyes bring in—we need to practice visual triage. 

• The garage sale principle: Everything looks different when we can see it all at once. 
• Regardless of how well organized all the stuff in our garage may be, laying everything out on tables in the light of day yields a completely new perspective on it all. The same is true for data.

1. Who and what ?

2. How much ?

3. When ? 

4. Where ?

5. How ?

6. Why ? 

The 6 W’s are used as coordinates for almost every descriptive picture we’re likely to face. 

The SQVID is just a series of five questions that we walk our initial idea through in order to bring it to visual clarity and to refine its focus.

• QUESTION 1: SIMPLE OR ELABORATE? 
• QUESTION 2: QUALITY OR QUANTITY? 
• QUESTION 3: VISION OR EXECUTION?
• QUESTION 4: INDIVIDUAL OR A COMPARISON?
• QUESTION 5: THE WAY THINGS ARE VERSUS THE WAY THEY COULD BE ( D (Delta) is for Change )

1. a PORTRAIT for a “who” or “what” problem;
2. a CHART for a “how much” problem;
3. a MAP for a “where” problem;
4. a TIMELINE for a “when” problem;
5. a FLOWCHART for a “how” problem; or
6. a MULTIPLE-VARIABLE PLOT for a “why” problem.

From just these six, we have the backbone framework for any problem-solving picture. 

It has several different blades to help visually solve almost any kind of problem.

1.  First are our three basic visual thinking tools: our eyes, our mind’s eye, and our hand-eye coordination.
2. Next, Four steps : look, see, imagine, and show.
3. Then we have the SQVID, the five questions that help us open our mind’s eye.(👆)
4. Last come the six ways we see: who/what, how much, where, when, how, and why.

1. First take a pen and a paper (/napkin), draw a circle and label it with me or health or business or whatever.
2. Then, ask the 6 questions (6W) in proper order for your problem then draw with imagination 💭 and label it . Once you finish all 6 questions , you get clarity about your problem or maybe solution .
3. Then use SQVID questions to your problem, you will get solution or get a crystal clear view of the problem.

Go through all the pictures , you will get it.

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

The point of a good picture isn’t to eliminate words; it’s to replace as many as possible so that the words we do use are the important ones. So as you work through your picture, make a point of describing—even if it’s only to yourself—what the pieces mean and why you’re drawing them.

• The human brain is a remarkable problem-solving device: More often than not, we already know the solution to our problem—usually because we’ve seen it somewhere before—but it’s locked away just out of grasp.
• When we see our problem mapped out in front of us pictorially, the solution often jumps right off the page. Don’t worry about what your picture looks like; concentrate on what it shows.