We think in pictures.  If someone asks you to think of a million dollars, you think of a pile of cash or a filled out check.  There might be some language written on the check ... but the language is part of a picture. There's a simple reason for this.  Language isn't real.  Words are an invention. We use words to represent the pictures we see in our head.  People we speak to paint a picture in their head based on the words we use. Many of us don't use words well.  They're … [Read more...]