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Five Thinking Styles to Help You Communicate with Others More Effectively

I’m coming back on May 1 with quite a few queued posts and possibly some real-time posts on that particular day. I’ll respond to some of the reblogs but I don’t want to stay for long, if any of you don’t mind. Anyway, I wanted to come on here for one particular post after I got interested in what a website called learning-minds.com had to say about thinking styles.

Some of these will sound just like some MBTI types, so be willing to share what your type is and which thinking style you identify with the most, the least, and the second most. I will not be responding to anyone until May 1, but I decided to write this post for today just to share it with you guys.

Synthesist Thinkers

·         Curious and creative

·         Tend not to think in logical, linear ways

o   Sees connections between things

·         Delight in finding relationships in things which, to others, have no apparent connection

·         Tangents and “what if” questions

·         Seen as argumentative

o   Are actually looking at and analyzing a range of different views and ideas

·         Thought patterns seem somewhat disjointed

·         If you are a synthesist:

o   Acknowledge the value of others’ ideas before discussing alternatives

·         If you work with a synthesist:

o   Understand they’re not trying to be argumentative but simply can’t help looking at problems from different angles

Idealist Thinkers

·         High standards and big goals

·         May be seen as perfectionists but are trying to achieve the highest quality they can in everything they do

·         Broad, holistic view of things; future-oriented

·         Value cooperation and teamwork

o   Will work hard to bring a team together and help everyone achieve their best

·         If you are an idealist:

o   Understand that everyone doesn’t have such high standards as you

o   Try not to get upset when people fail to achieve your (sometimes unrealistic) expectations

·         If you work for an idealist:

o   It can help you strive to be the very best you can

o   Also means your opinions will be listened to and valued

o   Can also rely on them to be honest and to live up to high moral standards

§  You can trust them and always know they will be honest with you

Pragmatic Thinkers

·         Focused on action

·         Like to tackle problems logically, one step at a time; prefer to make progress on one task at a time

·         Like to get things done and their approach is often flexible and adaptable

·         Not interested in why things happen or big picture problems as their idealist colleagues

·         Short-term perspective

·         If you are a pragmatist:

o   Occasionally view things from a wider viewpoint and take in the bigger picture

§  Help you understand where your actions are leading and ensure you are headed in the right direction

·         If you work with a pragmatist:

o   Try to keep to the subject at hand

§  Wandering off into big ideas and long-term planning may overwhelm them and they could give up altogether

Analyst Thinker

·         Like to work with measurable facts in a methodical way

·         Love facts and data, measuring and categorizing

·         Pay attention to detail and are thorough and accurate

·         Prefer predictability and rationality

o   Will look for a method, a formula, or procedure to solve a particular problem

·         If you are an analyst thinker:

o   You will do everything thoroughly and accurately

o   You may dismiss others whose attention to detail is not so good

o   People’s ideas are valuable even if their work is not quite as accurate as yours

·         If you work with an analyst:

·         Double check anything you show them for accuracy otherwise you risk losing their respect

·         Try to be logical and always present a plan for new ideas as they can grasp the concept better than if you just give them ideas

Realist Thinkers

·         Make great problems solvers

·         Think through problems quickly and act on the results to fix whatever is wrong

·         Become easily bored

o   Don’t find themselves challenged by run-of-the-mill issues, preferring to get their teeth into bigger problems

·         May appear too results-oriented

·         If you are a realist:

o   Pause every now and then

o   The first solution is not always the best and sometimes you need to take in a bit more information before assessing the situation and coming up with a plan

·         If you work with a realist:

o   Learn to get to the point quickly

§  Summarize the problem; don’t overload them with details

Putting the thinking styles to good use

For most people, one or two of these thinking styles dominate. However, fifteen percent of the population use all five thinking styles at some point. (OP here: I use four with my top two being Synthesist and, possibly, Pragmatist; if not, then Synthesist and Analyst. I identify the least with Idealist.)

Understanding your thinking style can help you broaden your horizons and be more receptive to the ideas of others. In addition, understanding how others think can help you tailor any information you have to share with them in such a way that they are the most likely to take it on board.

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How I think

I finally figured out the underlying principle behind how I think. For it to make sense, first you'll need some background. Analysis is the process of taking one concept and breaking it into parts. Synthesis is taking multiple concepts and showing how they're really all one concept. Analysis can be used creatively to show how things that seemed the same are different in important ways, while synthesis can be used to show that things that seem different are the same in important ways. I'm told that most people use one or the other better and more often: they're a natural analyzer or a natural synthesizer. I naturally do both. I've known that for a while, but I hadn't realized what analysis and synthesis had in common, and how that explains my strengths. Analysis and synthesis both involve changing where you place the boundaries between concepts. What do I mean by that? Well, consider the boundary between concepts considered opposites, like light and dark. In real life, things we think of as "light" or "dark" exist on a continuum of luminance (light-ness), which can be seen on a slider in many computer programs. Two grays on either side of the boundary between what you call "light" and what you call "dark" will look more different to you than they really are. And two grays on the same side of the boundary will look more similar than they really are. This way that concepts divide up reality is easiest to understand when it comes to perception (seeing, hearing, and so on). But consider many abstract concepts and they work the same way (man vs woman, for example). Language is an implicit agreement between the people in a culture to set boundaries in some places but not others. It can even involve an agreement to set certain boundaries at all. The colors that English speakers call "blue" are two colors for Russian speakers (roughly, sky blue vs. dark blue). We can see the difference between these hues, but we don't judge it important enough to put a boundary there. Why boundaries? They focus your attention. There's almost infinite information about the world and every object in it, way too much to process. Concepts let you focus on information that matters to your goals instead of unhelpful information (like the expression on someone's face instead of the color of their socks, during a conversation). Language sharpens these boundaries by naming them, and it allows many people to focus on the same concepts at the same time. Most people take for granted the boundaries between concepts set by their language and culture. They allow a certain amount of analysis and synthesis, so you can change the boundaries between concepts within limits. This lets people think and talk more flexibly. So my way of thinking is finding the boundaries between concepts, perceiving the whole continuum, deciding whether the boundaries are currently in the "right" place, and moving them around if they're not. In Mel Baggs' @withasmoothroundstone's way of putting it, I'm going back and forth between a level of direct experience and a level of language and widgets. This might be why I get most of my ideas in flashes of insight and have a slow, painstaking time piecing together an explanation or argument step by step later. My below-consciousness mind is processing the continuous, messy stream of information coming from my senses and emotions, finding patterns that seem important, and deciding where to tell my conscious mind to move itscomcept boundaries in order to better fit the patterns. The process would probably overwhelm my conscious mind, especially with my tiny attention and working memory. I can have great ideas my way, but don't know how to think the "normal" way. So where many of my university educated peers seem to bend their perception of the world to match their "widgets," I am continuously rearranging my widgets to better fit my perception of the world. That's one reason I've always excelled at using and thinking in my native language. My mind naturally does what language does, which is place boundaries between things to direct attention to them, and move those boundaries around. And that's one reason why telling a story often seems like the best explanation for my ideas. The only way to describe the complex, mostly nonverbal information in the world I'm trying to explain, I have to describe what I experienced. That's hard to do, and it isn't considered an acceptable argument in academia.

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A Study of Thinking Styles and its Impact on Life Skills among Secondary School Students

by N. Maharajan | Mrs. D. Geetha M. A. ""A Study of Thinking Styles and its Impact on Life Skills among Secondary School Students""

Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019,

URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25325.pdf  

Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25325/a-study-of-thinking-styles-and-its-impact-on-life-skills-among-secondary-school-students/n-maharajan

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We Think Differently We tend to look past the details to infer the whole, overall meaning. We infer the invisible relationships between the parts to find the underlying meaning. We define the individual details by the context for which they are occurring. For those on the spectrum, the overall meaning is tied to putting together the individual details. Their brains are stronger at seeing the details, but weaker at reading the context to infer the invisible relationships between the parts. This requires greater “thinking through” the details, rather than intuitively inferring the meaning. This conscious “thinking through” requires a lot of mental energy. Neurotypical people also tend to quickly look infer the overall meaning from a few parts, while ignoring much of the individual details. We then use this inferred overall meaning to determine what details are important to focus on. We often gloss over imperfections in the details without even noticing them. People on the spectrum will often not only see the impactions, but may also hyper-focus and get stuck on these imperfections. Simultaneous vs. Sequential Processing When the brain has good neuroconnections it can process all the multiple information simultaneously; integrating it together for one overall meaning. When your brain cannot simultaneously integrate this information, it has to sort through the information sequentially. People on the spectrum often have to consciously “figure out” what we process intuitively. This sequential reasoning slows down the processing, leaving the individual missing much of the rapidly changing information. Not only is it difficult to process multiple information simultaneously, it also results in delayed information processing, sometimes requiring 30-60 seconds (or more) to process what we may process in a few seconds. Not only is this very draining, but it often leaves the person struggling to “keep up” with the speed of information. Frequently they are left processing only bits and pieces of the total information, since much of it came and went before it could be processed. So, when you are acting on only pieces of the information, your interpretation and resulting behavior often is out of sync with the rest of us. This is often why the person on the spectrum seems to be a little off beat with us when interacting. Many people on the spectrum actually think in pictures, and not in words. For them, they have to rapidly translate our words into pictures, before they can interpret meaning. This further slows down and delays the processing. ASD Thinking Strengths • Good awareness of detail. • Good memory for facts, statistics, and other static information. • Literal thinking results in less biased interpretation of facts. • Can have very strong photographic memory. • Great awareness of sensory patterns. • Good concrete, logical reasoning. Weaknesses • Slow sequential processing. • Difficulty seeing the big picture. • Difficult time with ongoing changing information. • Difficulty with vague, multiple meanings. • Struggles with abstract reasoning that requires ongoing comparing, contrasting, reflecting and projecting. As with all “thinking styles”, ASD thinking has both strengths and weaknesses. They are very good with analyzing detail, memories facts, seeing sensory patterns, seeing mechanical and electrical detail. They are less biased in evaluating, because they tend to only see the facts. However, they struggle in situations that require rapid processing of dynamically changing information, reading underlying invisible relationships between the parts, difficulty with multiple meanings and vague information, and problems appraising and evaluating multiple options. People on the spectrum are going to have problems multi-tasking, and filtering out distracting information. They either will hyper-focus on specific, sometimes irrelevant details, or get distracted by too much information struggling for attention. This series on “Cognitive Issues in Autism” can be found in the blue book, “Autism Discussion Page on the Core Challenges of Autism”.

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