Thinking about thinking

[mdohr07]

Lately - especially since I am enrolled in the web development course - I am thinking about my own thinking type or that I would like to be more of a thinking type. I mean, I do think, but sometimes I think that I would like to be more capable of logical thinking. And I am thinking about which ways of thinking would be more beneficial to me - for example when learning about code and concepts. I feel like with some conceptual things I have no problems while with others I struggle a lot, must be about familiarity with those topics. When it comes to coding, the syntax part is my preference while reading about - let's say algorithms and data structures - are rather dull and hard to understand. Even though I do find it interesting! What helps me a lot is to do something myself. Or if at the very least I get to see an actual example so that I know how to visualise something.

Within the Myers Briggs' 16 personalities I am an INFJ-A.
I'm just gonna list the strenghts of the personality type that I am versus the one I could use more of (imo) below.

INFJ Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging	INTJ Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging
creative insightful principled passionate altruistic empathic	rational informed independent determined curious original

While I do like my personality type, I would like to have a "T" somewhere in there, more like the INTJ. I don't see myself replacing the "I", haha... without the negative aspects ideally, though! I already have a few of those posititive INTJ traits. Well, overall I also don't feel very intelligent in general. Which is to a degree possible to change, but it'll take time. All those books I didn't read in my life!
I do want to aim to be a more efficient thinker though, I do want to be able to think more logically. I might never be good at math, but one doesn't rule out the other necessarily.
Either way, I took a thinking style test today (I knew about the INFJ, I didn't take that test today) to try and figure out what my current thinking style is. I don't know how satisfied I am with the test that I took, I did like that the questions were more detailled though and had these little thinking tasks rather than just checking of something between "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree". I am an... 🥁

Executive
"They consider their own ideas as carefully as they consider ideas that others put before them, and they're adept at organizing both types of thought into clear plans of action for the future. However, they often prefer to leave the nitty-gritty components of these plans to others."
Supposedly that means I am...

• reflective
• subjective
• prepared
• skeptical

Scores

1. Future-based reasoning: 81.25%
2. Evidence evaluation: 68.75%
3. Quantitative reasoning: 56.25%
4. Cognitive awareness: 50%
    

"This quiz also assessed your abilities across 7 specific reasoning skills. You were found to be especially strong at 0 of them, in the average range at 7 of them, and on the weaker side in 0 of them." ...ok 🥺

There was also this other thinking type test that I took, which differenciates between five types of thinking: concrete (The Doer), analytical or abstract thinking (The Analyst), logical thinking (The Orator), imaginative (The Inventor) and creative (The Original Thinker). My results are:

88%	Inventor: maginative thinking A rich imagination and the ability to think in terms of images and express it in work
75%	Doer: concrete thinking Tendency to think in practical, actionable terms. Contributing to the world by bringing thoughts and ideas together and making them a reality
75%	Original thinker: creative thinking The ability to look at problems and situations from a different perspective and find unusual and often surprising solutions
63%	Analyst: analytical, abstract thinking The ability to process information in the form of codes and complex symbols — something you can’t see or touch
38%	Orator: logical thinking Thinking in terms of words and logic, the ability to form ideas and then deliver these ideas to others in a clear and logical format

And here I see exactly what my weak point is ;_; But the good thing about that is, that now I can look into it and try to improve just that!