> Balancing the two correctly
There are some famous examples complementary and different personalities working together very well, like e.g. Kahneman and Tversky:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-friends-...
Re:Overthinking (2021)
by testingwaters4 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:27AM
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I appreciate the sentiment, as you're right about one of too many of these are easy traps to fall into. I would also say that life isn't so binary, it's not one or the other, it's a huge mix of everything. Also I am not sure doing without thinking exists, the "doer" in your case has to think about what he is doing otherwise he wouldn't be able to do anything no?
Damn dude, having seen anything this insightful since that last Malcolm Gladwell book. Thanks!
I can't tell if this is cutting sarcasm or not; brilliant.
Too much “thinker” mentality and the project never goes anywhere. Too much “doer” mentally and the project moves but may go down an unproductive path.
Perhaps an analogy is that “thinker” and “doer” mentalities work together like a stochastic gradient descent algorithm.
The “thinker” mode tries to calculate accurate gradients, but never moves towards the goal.
The “doer” mode takes a step towards the next iteration, regardless of whether you have an accurate gradient already.
Balancing the two correctly can give beautiful momentum dynamics that steers towards your goal.