That is it. I see you.
I just noticed over the years some people were very good at seeing and some were very good at taking tests.
My best friend when I was in graduate school could not get through a basic statistics course but could write like Hemingway and see like Thoreau. He had his PHD at 22 (For Hunters of the Northern Ice) and wrote a book compared to Thoreau's Waldon pond. "The Island within". It was assigned to my daughter when at Berkeley. And he helped raise her.
I had other friends who were also average at thinking, but super seers, one became a multi millionaire, great intellectuals like Roger Poppy, and great personalities like my daughter, and could see better than the rest of us, but struggled with the hard sciences.
Also they were all among the funniest of all my friends for all my life. And humor is the juxtapositioning of reality. What a seer can do better than a thinker.
Our society rewards the thinkers (SATs), but doesn't know how to evaluate the seers. So the seer's too often are undervalued by society and themselves, although they have an equal talent, and do just as well in school (or poker), or seal hunting, and I have read research on some of it. They seem to do better at life as well. More sociable.
One is not better than the other, and we all posses both to some degree, and the tribe needs both to survive best.
I just never hear anyone look at this idea. We have a right and left hemisphere. Robert Ornstein wrote a book on it and said the left hemisphere does sequential logic and the right hemisphere is involved in the simultaneous juxtaposition of things. Where have see seen that manifestation before?
And he said: this is not metaphysical musings, we have the evidence.
And seers and thinkers, IMO, are a mixture of nature and nurture, so very hard to separate how they manifest from a childhood to an adult into one or the other. We are all a complicated collage of our two brains and nature and nurture.
We are like a woven mat. |
