Prepared

Before your flight takes off, flight attendants show you safety procedures by speaking and demonstrating what to do in cases of emergency. If attendants only spoke over the intercom, passengers would have no clue what to do before an emergency landing. When we haven’t experienced it, or at least seen it, it’s hard to think in the thick of it.

Instruction sets and video tutorials are helpful, but they always require more imagination than watching someone walk through it in person.

And when it’s important for us to learn how to prepare, we prefer to see it. We don’t want to read about the heimlich maneuver. We watch someone who knows how. And we practice it so we get it right when someone is choking. Short, simple demonstrations are easy to share, so they are when we find them important.

A picture is worth 1000 words, a good demonstration is worth 1000 conversations.