Categorical Thinkers vs. Creative Thinkers

What constitutes a smart person from someone who is not so smart? Have any idea?

If you ever have analyzed the mindsets of people who are considered highly intelligent, you will find that they have this one thing in common: They all think categorically. If you consider yourself, bright, smart, brainy, or above the rest, there is a reason behind this.

People who are considered smart categorize their thoughts and ideas. Every thought they have and every idea they think go under specific categories in their brains. If you are a lover of computers and you are a recipient of our modern age of technology and all of the software and hardware that it brings, you are parttaking of men and women who are highly intelligent. At least, the society that we live in has consider them intelligent. Just examine your computer, everything is categorized. It does not have to be this way, but for some reason, it is.

If you ever have sat down to conversate with someone who is very smart, you will find this to be the case. In many, if not most cases, you will find that when they speak, their speech is categorical. Should you step outside of their categorical sphere of thinking in conversation, they will become very angry with you, and even frustrated because you are not insink with their catagorical and organized thoughts.

For example, the creators of Microsoft, IBM, and other leading computer companies have created computers that are file oriented. Should you do an activity outside of the categorical box, so to speak, you could either cause problems within the computer, or even shut the system down. Why is this? Because it is outside of the categorical box of thinking and even the computer will not except this form of thinking. Have you noticed that everything is organized by files? This is not a bad thing, it is merely an observation.

This is often why people who are very smart in this arena of thought, often have a difficult time with those who are creative thinkers.

Creative thinkers are almost the opposite of the categorical thinkers. Creative thinkers are people whose thoughts are up one minute and down the next. It is almost as if they are operating by their own pulse. Up, down, up, down. Down, up, up, up, down. They are using the right side of the brain that fosters creativity.

But here is the point, creative thinkers think way outside the box, as do their categorical counterparts. But the box that they dwell in, if you will, is a box that is not necessarily square. In fact, they live in a world that is not necessarily box oriented. The world of the creative thinker goes beyond the box and is a boundless world without borders. The creative thinkers do not dwell in a world of posted borders. They do not recognize a world of "stop here" or "don't cross that line" or "you must stay within the context of this conversation". Creative thinkers have an inate hunger, desire, and passion to break anything that stands in their way. They want to reach the highest level in their work of art as possible because it is the passioin that fuels their thinking. The passion of their hearts and minds for what they deem most important, causes them to expound and create new worlds with their gifted crafts and talents. The opportunities, so they think, are endless and stretches past the great beyond.

Imagine what it is like when a categorical thinker and a creative thinker meet. In some cases, there are explosions, problems, arguments. The categorical thinker says, "We were not talking about that, we were talking about this. Now stay with the subject because you are frustrating me." The creative thinker says, "I don't understand you. Don't you see that there is a world out there that needs to be created (or, why can't you understand what I am trying to say, my music says it all.). These two thinkers frustrate each other and there is rarely ever any compromise.

The categorical thinker versus the creative thinker, two worlds apart. But should they ever come into agreement and work together, what a world that would be.