Scanner or Planner?

Are You a Scanner? (via)

“If you're a Scanner, you are a very special kind of thinker. Unlike those people who seem to find and be satisfied with one area of interest, you're genetically wired to be interested in many things. Because your behavior is unfamiliar -- even unsettling -- to the people around you, you've been taught that you're doing something wrong and you must try to change.

“But what you've been told is a mistake -- you have been misdiagnosed. You're a different creature altogether. What you've assumed is a disability to be overcome by sheer will is actually an exceptional gift. You are the owner of a remarkable, multitalented brain trying to do its work in a world that doesn't understand who you are and doesn't know why you behave as you do.”

I know I am.

Comments

[Stephanie]

I think you would enjoy the new book _The Renaissance Soul_ -- a different take on scanners. You can take a little quiz to seee if you are a RS here:

http://www.togetunstuck.com/renaissancesoul/quiz.htm

[Robert Millard]

Wow! We've never met. How do you know me so well? The good news is that scanners do periodically come up with something brilliant that is so different that nobody else thought of it, which then makes up for everything. They have to be incredibly self disciplined about keeping their 'crap-detectors' on full power, though. It's easy to get excited about an idea that is superficially great but doesn't stand up to critical scrutiny! And it takes about a nanosecond for a sophisticated client to pick up on the flaw.