Paint It So We Can See It
Your words are your programming. As leaders, educators, innovators, and change agents in our own lives, our words tune our brains (and the world) into the reality we speak. In this ProTalk ProTip, Liz Stubbs shares how to turn abstract ideas into vivid word pictures that make your message memorable, repeatable, and magnetic. Your audience won’t remember everything you say — but they will remember what they see.
PRO TALK
Liz Stubbs
12/5/20251 min read
Why Pictures Stick
When you speak in images, you bypass logic and go straight to emotion.
The mind may analyze words, but the body feels pictures.
That’s why storytelling has always been humanity’s most potent form of leadership.
The Neuroscience of Imagery
Mirror neurons don’t differentiate between hearing and doing.
Describe a scene vividly, and your listener’s brain fires as if they’re there.
You’ve just made your idea visceral — and memorable.
The ProTalk WIN
Take one concept you need to communicate and give it a visual life.
Add texture, light, motion.
Your audience won’t just understand — they’ll feel.
Because when you speak so we can see it, you turn communication into art.
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