#173 - How to Improve Intelligence, Thinking, & Perception Through the Visual System | Dr. David Cook

Over the span of his 40 plus-year career, Dr. David Cook’s focus has been on testing, monitoring, and fine-tuning vision therapy as a clinician, author and educator. As one of the nation’s leading authorities on vision therapy, Dr. Cook has given lectures on expanding depth perception to optometrists and other eye professionals at clinical seminars, study groups and optometric congresses all over the world. His book “The Shape of the Sky” teaches us that vision is something we do, and more importantly, something we can learn to do better."

EPISODE LINKS:

https://www.oepf.org/product/the-shape-of-the-sky

https://CookVisionTherapy.com

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OUTLINE 

0:00 - Introduction 

4:02 - What is Vision? 

5:05 - Neuroplasticity 

7:50 - Using vision to improve Intelligence 

13:44 - Dyslexia 

22:51 - Technology is making the world ‘near-sighted’ 

37:47 - Binocular vision 

46:17 - 3D vision in super athletes 

1:03:14 - Vision & personality 

1:12:56 - Knowledge by experience VS acquaintance 

1:20:08 - Eye games  

1:33:05 - Protocols to improve reading skills 

1:41:50 - How language changes perception 

1:48:07 - Picasso & Rembrandt were stereo blind  

1:55:59 - Color blindness 

2:00:45 - Daily protocols to enhance small vision (Deep Winks) 

2:05:16 - Daily protocols to enhance big vision (3D) 

2:16:06 - The shape of the sky 

2:20:39 - How seeing changes thinking