Are you a fast thinker or a slow thinker? Check out this thread by innovation guru Rumi Shivaz - I love the image he has used too. He looks like an old soul.

Rumi's thread reminds me of one of my clients, a man in this 40's who had for all his life thought he was stupid...why? "At school," he told me, "I needed time to think but all "the smarter" kids piped up first." Classic introverted versus extroverted thinking - the latter overtly more valued within the pre-university system and im many workplaces.

While quick, extraverted thinking has it's strengths, many people tell me that more often than not they have no idea what they think until the words tumble out and they try to make sense of it. Introverted thinkers, on the other hand, tend to work out carefully what they want to say before they say it. Sadly, many people mistake their silence for a lack of opinion, or worse, a lack of intelligence.

True creativity benefits from whole brain thinking.

Find out more about your thinking style by taking the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator

Labels: Cultivating Creativity