Visualization For Advice.

Tool selected: Visualization.

Challenge: When being an elder sibling, you are expected by society to be the “Ideal Example” for your  younger siblings. Your actions effect the people around in conscious and subconscious ways. When you  are the eldest in your household. Advice is something you often tend to give, either through your  actions or words. Your siblings in this sense can be younger than you by a large age gap, and hence you  need to visualize from their understanding and perspective on how to get them to perceive the situation  at hand the way you do. I feel visualization helps a lot in making a challenge easier to tackle.

Selection: I chose visualization because to me it is the easiest way to tap into someone else’s  understanding on a problem at hand. Give them a scenario, what do you get? You get their next step  towards solving it, you get their reasoning and their perspective with regards to the same. Being the  elder and more experienced, you might know that is not the right step they are taking further and that  those actions can result into unforeseen consequences.  Putting across a belief or a command is hard  when dealing with adolescents. Nevertheless, they understand you are trying to help. The mode of  which you take for a conversation; the tone, the approach, all constitutes to their willingness to listen  and comprehend.

Application: Visualization through examples can help tackle this problem as they get their mind thinking  alike. Example, you do not want them to go out late at night, it isn’t safe. What’s the approach to be  taken towards a 16-year-old teenage girl? A visual approach can change their perspective on the  problem at hand. Explain to them, “ just think, there are so many rape cases happening in today’s world.  Most of them taking place at night, why not choose to go out earlier than post 12 am midnight. Why not  take the safer option?” Make them visualize the danger at hand. Explain through calm and  understanding tactics. This is just one of many ways to put forth a visual understanding exercise. The  application of a visual technic is very important with reference to who you are applying it to. It takes  different scenarios or different intensities to make different types of the population spectrum to  understand.

Insight: This might by far be the most interesting part of the challenge at hand; to understand their  perspective. The world moving at such a fast pace, the younger generations having readily available  information has changed their mindsets from when we were their age. Hearing them out and their  perspective on our visual topic can lead us to understand their solutions to the problem and can help us  give more of a better visual topic with relation to the same.

Approach: I would always try to approach in a better and more understanding manner. Sometimes this  can spark and anger and other emotions in the people we are trying to convince or make understand  our point of view. I would always try to change the visual story and mold it to make the other person  understand.

