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the temple grandin is a professor of animal science at colorado state university and thees author of "the new york times" bestsellers animals and translations which became an hbo movie starring claire danes. she's been a pioneer in improving the welfare of animals as well as outspoken advocate for the autism community. she has the newest book visual thinking the people who think in pictures patterns and abstractions is out now and available for purchase from our partner bookseller politics and prose and it is in the chat. now without further delay, please welcome doctor temple grandin. >> it's great to be here and talk to everybody tonight on zoom and i appreciate if you can get the slides up so i can see them and i'm going to be talking about different kinds of thinking.te this is something that interests me. i am an extreme visual thinker. everything i think about the picture and when i was a little kid i was severely autistic and lucky to get into good early educational programs. i can't emphasize how important that is. i am now a college professor in animal behavior, so i think w

temple grandin. it's great to be here and talk to everybody tonight. zoom and really appreciate if you could get my slides up so i can see them and going to be talking about different kinds of thinking and this is something that really interests me. i am an extreme visual thinker. everything i think about the picture and when i was a little kid i was severely autistic. i was very lucky to get into very good early educational programs. i can't emphasize how important that is and i'm now a college professor in. animal behavior. and so i think we'll go on to my next slide. and the first thing is you have to realize different of thinking exist a lot of people are mixtures of different kinds thinking but there are some people that are really extreme one extreme visualizer if you saw the hbo movie about me, it exactly how i think now when i first started out my animal behavior work when i was in my twenties i everybody thought in pictures didn't know that verbal thinking exists. and then i was shocked when i discovered that there are a lot of people around d

i was doing projects that were showing temple grandin's hbo. next slide. so when you're earlier what i learned i will show people my work. i learned how to sell my work than myself. a lot of people on the site are very successful , they're still working shots, reasons small, they were self-employed and run the business side. they as always you that are going to have to have somebody in a suit to keep things organized a. pay bills, negotiate prices, the. what does the next slide. this is a line that i use to sell on having the design the end of every single part of these plans in their selling very well for only thought was retarded. but the thing is showing hr doesn't do the plant manager is used, the people that will appreciate. you've got to show the work that how i got jobs. so next slide. and i want to show you some of the photos i stop portfolio. let's say your usual off some of the, and i used both old one day uniquely presented so something and say it only happensmemory . so the next slide. at the age of my projects. actually all i movie shows after

they designed the experience based on the advice from physical and occupational therapists, and temple grandin. she's the famed colorado state academic and activist. the trail opened in 2021 and the founders say it's the first specifically designed for neuro-divergent adventurers. they hope that the model is replicated elsewhere. looks like a great place to spend an afternoon. that's it for this edition of "matter of fact. i'm soledad o'brien. we'll see you next week. >> and listen to matter of fact with soledad o'brien on your favorite podcast provider. watch us during the week on fyi and youtube. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] who's on it with jardiance? ♪ ♪ we're the ones getting it done. we're managing type 2 diabetes and heart risk. we're on it with jardiance. join the growing number of people who are on it with the once-daily pill, jardiance. jardiance not only lowers a1c, it goes beyond to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart diseas

welcome doctor temple grandin. >> it's great to be here tonight and talk to everybody on zoom and appreciate your size up to ilk can see them. i'll talk about different kinds of thinking and this is something that interests me. i am an extreme visual thinker. everything i think about. when i was a little kid, i was artistic and lucky to get into very good educational programs (that is i am now a college professor, and animal behavior so i think iou will go on, up nt and the first thing you have to realize different thinking exists. a lot of people are mixtures of different kinds of thinking will oncome our stream visualizers ad on a movie about me, it shows how i think. resume 20s, i thought everybody thought in pictures, i didn't know verbal thinking existed as i wase shocked when i discovered a lot of people think in t pictures. that was a shock to me. being a visual thinker helped me in my work and will behavior. we will go to the next slide and it shows a shadow. i've done a lot of work. that's a picture of me in the picture with my camera and i'm making a shadow that's scary the cattle.

you had a phone call with temple grandin and you might tell folks who she is. i had the opportunity to meet her over one time, a very impressive woman who really knows the livestock industry. can you just recount that little discussion had with her about what was going on the pandemic. yeah. so temple is an icon, a true legend? her biopic has claire danes playing her. she's an autism advocate kit and a food systems advocate. been a part of the meat industry since. the 1970s, when she was kind of upgrading and creating better cattle handling systems. and i profiled one of the producers that she was one of the first ones she worked with in the book, billionaire henry davis of greater omaha, who we can maybe about later. but, you know, she also was, you know, upgrading these systems from mcdonald's. pretty much everyone in the industry. and, you know, through work at forbes, i had the pleasure and honor of working with her on some of her, you know, thoughts as she was trying figure out what she wanted to write about as this pandemic hitting it. she was a contribut

so we're doing john lewis, we're doing temple grandin are the next one's. and and i need those brakes. those brake kind of recharged me and then oddly their stories wind up again as in everything you heard here informing other parts of the thrillers, things that i couldn't. but thanks to everyone who supports those kids books. i do appreciate it. all right. well, i think that's the natural end. i want to thank the audience. and again, thank you to the authors. this was fantastic. thank you all. thanks, everyone so the next session is ticketed session. and so i ask that everyone agree that

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scientist and autism activist temple grandin explains how visual thinkers play an important role in society. white house correspondent april ryan discusses the role of black women in american democracy, and former vice president mike pence reflects on his life, faith a his time in the trump administration. find a full schedule online at booktv.org. if starting now, booktv's "in depth" program with missouri if times chief white house correspondent peter baker and susan glaser. the husband and wife team have written three books together; kremlin rising, the man who ran washington about james baker and the divider: trump in the white house 2017-2021. ..sa >> guest: we have no ideology of -- >> host: so in the middle of those i think. susan glasser, what's the best i part about working on a book and living with the person and raising a son with the same person you're writing a book with? >> guest: you know, your spouse can't get mad at you for spending too much time at work. >> host: what's the worst part about writing a book with that same person? >> guest: you spent too much time at work. >>