Why $\frac{\partial}{\partial r}$ can be written of this way?

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Let $(M,g)$ a riemannian manifold. Let $r$ de radial distance i.e

$r(q) = |\exp_p^{-1}(q)|$

define

$\frac{\partial}{\partial r} = \sum_i \frac{x_i}{r}\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}$

in this book said that

$\frac{\partial}{\partial r} = \frac{d}{dt}_{t = 0}\exp_p(t\frac{v}{|v|}+v)$

where $v \in T_pM$ with $\exp_p(v) = q$.

but why this is true??