Well, What Kind of Thinker *Am* I?

[chomiji]

A Saturday is a perfect time for a meme! This one is ganked from kispexi2:

Your Thinking is Abstract and Random

You are flexible, adaptable, and creative. There's many ways that you can learn - and you're up for any of them. You relate well to other people, and you do well working in groups. You can help people communicate together and work with each other's strengths. You don't work well with people who are competitive or adversarial. You prefer to work toward a common goal... not toward conflicting goals. What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Whoa, pretty good result there for only 4 questions!

Comments

[freeradical9.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. I *so* can not keep up with you guys.

I actually had good intentions to visit this thread last night and join in, but accidentally fell asleep trying to get my rambunctious preschooler off to dreamland. I *want* some of that energy!

I have visions of us sitting in a forest clearing, and I'm insisting on talking while you guys want to just be.

*grin* With your introversion score of 74%, I bet we could manage a compromise (it's the plane passenger or person on line who needs to *constantly* be in a conversation in order to feel secure that drives me really bonkers). Like smillaraaq's comments below, it's easier to be doing mechanical things in a group setting, so I'd be fine if it were something that didn't require intense concentration. And although I can't really write and carry on a conversation at the same time, I'm actually very good at tuning out background noise so I don't have a problem writing in a public place or in a crowded house.

And looking at my and smilla's Verbal/Linguistic scores in comparison with free9's, it's no wonder that we seem to dumping out buckets and buckets of words

This is actually a really eye-opening comment for me. I've always wondered how some people are able to be so prolific in lj. I thought up to this point it was entirely a time issue, that some folks just had jobs that allowed some surfing during the day, or had more time in the evening to journal. Now I'm realizing that at least a portion of it might be due to personal style. A person who has a lot of verbal/linguistic tendancies can probably put-together a paragraph a lot more quickly than one who is very deliberate and has to fact-check everything. Huh.

... if we all got together FTF

*sigh* I had been hoping to go to Otakon this year, and as such (since your location is posted in userinfo) I thought it might be cool to suggest meeting up. Unfortunately, a family obligation is going to prevent me from attending the con this year. Maybe next year, or if either you or Smilla ever decide visit the New York area....

[chomiji]

I surf more during the day than I should, and there are things I just won't look at when I'm in the office. But I can also squeeze 45 minutes in the morning, between when the Mr. and the Young Lady go off (or she sleeps in, when there's no school) and I have to get ready to go. And then I can squeeze in 1.5-2.5 hours in the evening after kitchen duty is over. I'm not quite as prolific as smilla, I think because I read and re-read everything (and still end up with typos - it's sad). But yes, I compose on-the-fly very rapidly. And although I'm shy of public speaking, I can be a pretty effective off-the-cuff speaker in meetings.

I had almost forgotten about Otakon! I'm sorry we won't see you! We will be driving to Cape Cod around Aug. 8/9, and coming back the next week. We usually swing up and over NYC on the Tappan Zee and head across Westchester to Connecticut. I don't know whereabouts you're located, but ... . (This is an open post, BTW, so maybe you want to use a personal message for any more details.)

[chomiji]

Back in college and in our early going together/married-no-kids days, I had an active FTF geek social life: a couple of roleplaying games and regular Society for Creative Anachronism activities kept me very content on the social level. My favorite SCA activity was actually Baron Kay and Baroness Elaina's weekly "At Homes," which was just geeky people sitting around their living room, ostensibly planning events and working on costumes, but in reality mostly just schmoozing.

Having a child isolated me a great deal. Most of our friends weren't even married at the time. The fairly serious post-partum depression I had was due at least in part to the sudden cut-off of all that.

Starting an LJ, communicating with people here (and I give sanada huge props for her support by e-mail my first several months, when I still barely knew anyone) and now actually seeing some people FTF has been the best thing that's happened to me socially since the Young Lady was born.

I don't have huge amounts of online time, at any one time, though I can snatch dribs and drabs throughout the day. The other thing is that I often over-think what I'm writing (worrying about how the recipients will react), with the result that I frequently go back and edit what I'm writing before I post it ... so I tend be running as fast as I can to stay in one place on my responses, sometimes!