The Difference In Thinking; How Different Intelligences Try to Solve Problems…

The Difference In Thinking; How Different Intelligences Solve Problems…

Conscientious Individual: “First, let’s acknowledge the fact that there is a problem (or problems), and secondly, resolve to do something about it.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “The only problems that exist are the ones that directly affect me, and those I feel ideologically linked to.”

Conscientious Person: “Let’s start by figuring out the parameters of the problem(s) we’re facing, and then identify causal influences that are likely converging to create the problem(s).”

Cowardly Ideologue: “Let’s just figure out who and what to blame and attack!”

Conscientious Person: “Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. Let’s unpack the problem completely, and leave no stone unturned, so that we can solve it properly once and for all.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “Let’s just pick the right people to think for us, and then devalue and change them whenever we get tired of them not doing enough to fix the problem(s) that none of us actually want(s) to think about!”

Conscientious Person: “Let’s be honest with ourselves, so that we can be sure we’re considering the problem thoroughly, at all relevant levels.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “It’s everyone else’s fault for losing themselves in their idealism! WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PRESERVE AND REMAIN IN OUR IDEALISMS (because we’re right), but they need to come back to reality. Or better yet, join us in our idealism!”

Conscientious Person: “Now that we’ve identified the problem(s), and have isolated as many of the causal influences we can, how are we currently contributing to the problem(s), so that we can mitigate any negative impact we’re already making?”

Cowardly Ideologue: “What everybody needs to do is just believe and defend the right things! We’re the good guys and they’re the bad guys! It’s really that simple! All we have to do is fight the people who disagree, and edify people who agree! That’s how real progress is made!”

Conscientious Person: “This is a mechanical problem that requires mechanical thinking and a mechanical solution.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “We just have to blame and attack the right people, pick the right leaders and believe in the right things!”

Conscientious Person: “Thinking and working is what’s required to solve problems.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “Authority (money, status, power, influence), aggression (violence, dissent, punishment, blame, withholding), belief and control are what’s needed to solve our problems!”

Conscientious Person: “I want to operate from a space of understanding.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “I just want to be right and/or the moral authority.”

Conscientious Person: “I want to fix things.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “I just want to see things fixed, and complain when they’re not.”

Conscientious Person: “I am a doer.”

Cowardly Ideologue: “I’m a spectator who falsely equates watching, complaining and reacting with actually doing useful things.”