The post you are reading is energized by Faraday’s theory of electromagnetism. The five senses, which are instruments of our desire, follow theory of electromagnetism. (Unless, you are practicing equanimity, as elucidated, by the GREAT GAUTAMA BUDDHA).
The key to Faraday’s greatest discoveries was the “force fields”, if one places iron filings over a magnet, one finds that the iron filings create a spider web like pattern that fills up all the space. Empty space to Faraday was not at all empty but was filled up with lines of force that could move distance object. (Invisible field are just like future solutions which are invisible when we begin solving a problem) Because of Faraday’s poverty stricken youth, he was illiterate in mathematics, and as a consequence his notebooks were not full of equations but hand drawn diagrams of these lines of force. Ironically, his lack of mathematical training led him to create the beautiful diagrams that now can be found in any physics textbook.
In science a physical picture is often more important than the mathematics used to describe it. The science is thus best explained by figures. Also it has been said that picture is worth thousand words and equations (later one is my own addition)
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The point I am trying to make here is not only to convey the way the FARADAY did his work with force fields but to gravitate your attention towards importance of representing a system and thus hidden & unhidden problem associated with it in a diagrammatic form.
In Systematic Innovation (TRIZ - an Innovation Science), system is broken into individual component level describing their functional relationship & along with their individual attributes. This way the complex system is outspread into visual form. Functions are then classified into useful, harmful, excessive, inadequate & missing. Mind works better in search of an Innovative solution with such a diagrammatic representation many times washing away cobwebs of description.
While solving personal problems common man like us prefer to have a picture of GOD in front, isn’t it sensible then to have a picture of a problem we are trying to solve.
To conclude it is better to first represent the system in its visual form than in mathematical form. (Mathematician will later explain it, just as Maxwell explained FARADAY’s work) Qualitative thinking needs to precede quantitative one. (If you have lot of time then spend it data collection & analysis). At least using the former you will not dose off while sitting in that much hyped reactive brain storming sessions.
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