Dear readers,

One day, a teacher dropped a ball into a hole and instructed the children to retrieve it. The students first tried to grab the ball with their hands, but the ball was beyond reach. The students then opted to use sticks, but that prove unsuccessful too. Their attempts remained unsuccessful until the a student, who was quietly observing his classmate, poured a bucket of water into the hole. To the others' astonishment, the ball floated to the top and was picked up by the brightest student.

Upon hearing this story, one would wonder which student they would be. Will they be the brightest student or the student whose attempt failed? Many of us would like to believe that we would be the brightest student. However, we all know that can't be true. Realizing this is a very humbling experience. Realizing this can be very depressing also. But this does not mean we are inferior in anyway to the brightest student. It does not give us permission to become unmotivated and strive to be nothing more than average. To those who might think this, I beg you to reconsider. Although the brightest student was the one to ultimately solved the problem, it was the other students who made the first attempt. These attempts, although unsuccessful, were actions nonetheless. While the brightest student was observing their classmate and contemplating their action, the others were more than willing to dive right in and try.

I consider the students the "doers" and the brightest student the "thinker." If it was just a group of students that was "the thinker", I doubt any of those students would have came to the resolution so easily or at all. It is in the thinker's nature to over think and talk themselves out of the right resolution. In saying so, it was the doers who told the thinker information (like how deep the hole might be) that enabled the thinker to find the solution. The doers are the pioneers who paved the way for the thinkers. The doers and thinkers are compatible with one another and the intelligence of the doers is completely necessary to a solution of the problem. Why? Because smart mistakes helps and dumb mistakes do not.

Sincerely,

RacyLuu

This is a blog post I found while browsing the web the other day that I found very interesting. Which do you think you are? And if you are a thinker, is there anything you've like to dispute about the analysis?

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This is a great article. I think I am a doer, I get a lot of things accomplished, but it is by trial and error that I succeed at it.

I would like to think I am a combination of the two. In some instances I am surely the "doer" over and over again the "doer" lol! However, I have certainly been the "thinker" on many occasions as well! I think your article is fantastic. Thank you for sharing!
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I am definitely a "doer" and also a "thinker." At times yes I work in a group, only if I am forced to do so however. I work better on my own and I can tend to focus more on the situation at hand.

As the article says, working in a group with others cause you to have both "doers" and "thinkers," but I also believe you can do both on your own. There is myself, and many of others that grab a hold on a situation and takes it upon themselves to strive towards and answer or finish a project. It is the repetition of failing(that is of the "doer") that leads to the final consequence or accomplishment.(that can be done my the "thinker")

Career4me said it good, that by trial and error you can yourself become both a "doer" and "thinker."

There is one part of the article that I disagree with. The part that says, "Because smart mistakes helps and dumb mistakes do not." I do not believe this because any mistake can lead to another idea, which can therefore lead to an answer. I'm not sure what the writer was thinking when they wrote this, but I would like to know their thought process. According to many people we all make some "dumb" mistakes at times, but isn't it true that in fact those "dumb" mistakes teach us something also. At times we need that mistake to show us and to reassure us not to do it again. Call it an "eye-opener" I guess you can say.

This was a really cool article!

I think I am more of a "doer." Like the students, I would have done the obvious things to try and get the ball out, like stick my hand down the hole. I would have tried a few different methods. I have a tendency to act first, think after. However, I do get a lot of things done. After I try a few things without necessarily thinking things through, I begin to think through other methods. So I guess you could say I am a combination of both "thinkers" and "doers" but I would be leaning more towards the "doers" side.