You’ve got to love analytical thinkers.
Engineers, surveyors, computer programmer, mathematician, accountants, auditors, analysts, in fact any individual in finance, engineering or science or aviation or the medical profession.
They build stuff, research and analyse data backwards, forwards and sideways, until a mistake is found and corrected and only then will they then sign off on the project. They repeat findings to ensure the first result wasn’t a fluke or misleading. They apply their logical thinking, problem solving brain and base their finding on facts not opinions. Opinions are just that – where’s the proof they ask.
In fact it’ is great for the rest of us, the analytical thinker is so precise, even pedantic, with such attention to detail their almost painful; as they laboriously ensure the process is followed to the minute detail. But as I sit in a plane ready to take off, I take comfort the career of a budding licence maintenance engineer, has crawled all over the plane to find anything that is not safe. Or as the sedation of the anaesthetist gradually prevents me from counting backwards from one hundred, I am more than little pleased they keep me alive when I ‘m in a comatose state.
Everywhere you look the analytical is at work – building roads, buildings, mechanical objects, the cars we drive, the computer we spend too much time in from of, the iron ore we dig from the grounds, the scientific breakthrough we read about or the corporate balance sheet that investors rely upon on the stock exchange. Their footprint on society is every without peer.
And thank god they are who they are. We live in a safer, more innovative, better constructed world.
The small downside can be reporting to one. The fact they are usually task orientated rather than people oriented means they can be excused for being cold and perhaps a little reserved –not the gung ho leader you would charge into the unknown with. They can also be a tab boring, some with even a personality bypass, but if you are an analytical yourself you’ll relate well, provided you don’t make mistakes or leave errors in your calculations.
So to all you established analytical thinkers and career emerging analytical, thanks for everything and just remember, there is a mistake in there somewhere – go find it.
Why not share your experiences with us.........
Oh and by the way this blog was written by a creative thinker, who seems to think that creative thinkers are the be all and end all of life!!!!