Reminds me of Freeman Dyson’s “Frogs and Birds” categories for researchers<p><a href="https://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf</a>
The most important principle to me when it comes to thinking is to recognize when people act in binary extremes and develop moderation. If you slow down and take a look around yourself, you can probably see your strengths and weaknesses. If you're a tortoise kind of person, look at how the hares do things, and vice versa. From the article:<p>"So far, I’ve mostly been talking about tortoise mode, as if it was the good mode that we need more of. But it takes both modes to live life well. I don’t think the parable of the tortoise and the hare is the whole truth. We’re not the tortoise or the hare: we are the tortoise and the hare. The question is which champion to bring out for which race."