Video Number Line

"Honey bees have recently been shown to count accurately up to five, understand the concept of zero and also order groups of objects left to right.
Scientists call this the “mental number line” — whereby you start on the left with a small number and count up to the right towards a big number.
Some believe this to be a cultural concept, something learnt from our elders, but an increasing number of studies show primates, birds and now insects instinctively start on the left."

A paragraph from ever-reliable cubicle-dweller champ Harry Wallop in his Times column.

Although it does make you think, what of human cultures that do not read and write from left to right? And of all those left-handed cats?

Still, this did remind me of all the times when meeting over video people go a bit topsy-turvy with their gesturing.

Even on my latest such call, I showed someone how to make the rising straight-line graph motion properly. It's like you're in front of a mirror. You go 'tother way round to how you've always done it.

Meaning you start your flat hand and outstretched fingers bottom-right in front of you, moving diagonally upwards to top-left to make your point.

Same applies for making say, three points in a row.

We must re-orientate.

To the opposite of how we'd write column headings.

Instead we must motion first to our right. Then middle. Followed by left.

One-Two-Three.

That's our 'video number line'. Show in the way your audience instinctively process. It'll create the right buzz.