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

THE SQVID 

<ul><li>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.</li><li>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. </li></ul>

Talking In Pictures

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.

Breakdown Any Complex Problem Into 6 Questions(6W)

<ol><li>First take a pen and a paper (/napkin), draw a circle and label it with me or health or business or whatever.</li><li>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 .</li><li>Then use SQVID questions to your problem, you will get solution or get a crystal clear view of the problem.</li></ol>Go through all the pictures , you will get it.

Actionable Steps

“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.

Doodle Aloud—and Erase Even Louder

<ul><li>Strategic, financial, operational, conceptual, personal, and emotional: It doesn’t matter the nature of the problem we face—if we can imagine it, we can draw it.</li><li>By drawing it we will see otherwise invisible aspects, and potential solutions will emerge.</li><li>Drawing our problem is always worth a try: Even in the worst case—if no solution becomes visible—we’ll still end up with an infinitely clearer view of our situation. </li></ul>

Solve Any Problem with Pictures

<ol><li>a PORTRAIT for a “who” or “what” problem;</li><li> a CHART for a “how much” problem;</li><li> a MAP for a “where” problem;</li><li> a TIMELINE for a “when” problem;</li><li>a FLOWCHART for a “how” problem; or</li><li> a MULTIPLE-VARIABLE PLOT for a “why” problem.</li></ol>From just these six, we have the backbone framework for any problem-solving picture.

What We Show And What We See

There are three kinds of visual thinkers:<ol><li>The black pen : People who can’t wait to start drawing.</li><li>The highlighters : Those who are happy to add to someone else’s work.</li><li>The red pen : Those who question it all—right up to the moment they pick up the red pen and redraw it all. </li></ol>

Black Pen, Yellow Pen, Red Pen: 

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 FOUR STEPS OF VISUAL THINKING

<ul><li>The garage sale principle: Everything looks different when we can see it all at once. </li><li>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.</li></ul>

The Garage Sale Principle: How Do We Even Know What We’ve Got? 

It has several different blades to help visually solve almost any kind of problem.<ol><li> First are our three basic visual thinking tools: our eyes, our mind’s eye, and our hand-eye coordination.</li><li>Next, Four steps : look, see, imagine, and show.</li><li>Then we have the SQVID, the five questions that help us open our mind’s eye.(👆)</li><li>Last come the six ways we see: who/what, how much, where, when, how, and why.</li></ol>

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