Thinking and processing! That's what you love to do the most. Ideas and options are what you're always creating. Once something seems concrete, structured and complete, you have a way of coming up with a creative option that changes the whole and leads to a better building process.
Most of the time you are very uncanny about seeing and understanding the big picture. Yes, you're a holistic thinker that is always asking the question "How?" Everything, including the smallest detail, needs to be woven into a framework to answer your question of "How?" Not one step can be taken until you know how that one step fits into the whole. These are some of the many reasons why people refer to you as a visionary.
Your thinking process is mostly intuitive and analogic. However, you do use facts and logic to back up your intuitive thought processing. When you weave these processes together, you're constantly challenging logical and scientific thought. You seem to stretch the facts to create a new theory or develop a synthetic way of tying different theories together. This optional way of thinking energizes your thought processes while at the same time focuses your energy on the facts in specific, yet different, ways.
Whenever you feel it's necessary, you'll take your newly developed plans and attempt to put them into applied and practical action immediately. Sometimes, you'll forget to communicate this to others. That's when others are surprised by your directed drive and behavior. It's as if this process came out of nowhere.
When you're in this action mode, you're completely focused on accomplishing your goals and objectives. You can be very punctual in meeting achievement-oriented timelines. You go from being a laid-back, thinking person to an organized leader who makes sure that others are doing the work properly and timely. During this time, you don't like to waste energy conversing about personal matters or irrelevant topics. It's during this mode of operation that people see you as an entrepreneur. You have an unusual idea, focus in on it, and then drive it to fruition.
Every so often, paradoxical thoughts attract you. While most people tend to avoid them, you seem curious and comfortable with them. That's because, once again, your need for creative and optional thinking doesn't have to be tied consistently together with logical and factual data.
You're attracted to the unknown more than the known. You're drawn to what's unusual about something rather than what is ordinary about it. If it's strange or way out there, you'll want to know and read more about it. You may take ideas from this and apply them in some practical way.
As a scientist or scholar, you have a bent towards the artistic side. What other people see as facts, you may see as shades of facts or possibilities of different facts. It's the development and the creation of new ideas and ways of looking at something that excites you. That's because your world is the world of possibilities and visions.
You're always thinking about the future and you have an usual awareness as to what may happen. What you forecast is not always logical and sometimes makes many people uncomfortable. But, if they've known you long enough, they use the awareness to be better prepared for upcoming situations or events.
Change, particularly in ideas, is never-ending for you. What you're enthusiastic about today may not be the focus of your energy in a week, a month or year. People that know you see a dynamic stream of consciousness which, given the right amount of time and people support, allows you to develop idealistic and artistic themes into living and creative realities. It makes no difference whether they are software programs, pieces of art, strategies for corporations or new, holistic developments for organic gardening.
There is no timeline or deadline for your accomplishments. They are never-ending because you will go back and transform them if they evolve into a different whole within you. That is why in school or at work you procrastinate until the last moment to finish a paper, an assignment, or a project. If you do the work early, you'll have to go back and change it completely because you'll see it in a different contextual whole at the time when it is due. So, why redo it?
People want you to share your thoughts with them. That's because your ideas and expressions usually give a different slant on a topic or on what's happening. Many times others look to you for your awareness or guidance about something.
You're an excellent communicator with individuals and small groups of three, no more than four people. You listen attentively to what people say, how they say it and what feelings are generated. When you give feedback, it is usually very sensitive and leads to further communication. You have an unusual awareness for what is happening to the person and others that are participating. It's almost like a sixth sense. Sometimes, people distance themselves from you because of this sensitivity and your feedback.
Almost the same thing happens when you enter a room with people conversing. Without trying, you can sense the themes of the discussions and the feelings being expressed. As you join a group, people are drawn to you and have a need to express their thoughts and feelings in your presence. You seem to be a natural facilitator for communication on all levels.
Communications (Verbal):
· · Most often, they are very intuitively aware of what is happening during conversations on many different levels.
· Empathetic and practical communicators who are constantly trying to realistically understand how the other person is thinking and feeling.
· Usually very patient with people who don't seem to understand what's being discussed.
· Excellent listeners to both the verbal and the nonverbal; sometimes they may be very direct and concise with feedback.
· Sometimes, they may move from communication to action in a surprisingly short period of time.
· Very adept at using metaphors and similes to make the whole idea of the communication clearer or more poignant.
· When conversations reach an impasse, creative dialogue and humor seems to break the ice to enhance communication.
· Out-of-the-box thinkers who love to share creative options.
· They enjoy communicating one-to-one, in small groups, on a team, or with an audience.
Taking Directions:
· Sometimes they'll need to understand the whole picture before being able to follow specific directions.
· Often they'll think of alternative ways to do a task better and quicker.
· Very sensitive and clairvoyant about how directions can effect future outcomes.
· Can be somewhat resistive to vague directions or to directions which don't seem to serve the whole project.
· May need explicit directions and timelines to help them stay motivated and on task.
Task Orientation:
· They're not afraid to put in extra work to complete a task.
· They're able to handle independent work as well as group work.
· They prefer open-ended tasks that blend creativity and logic with pragmatic applications.
· They're quite capable of seeing alternative ways of doing something that others can't visualize.
· Usually they need clear structure and deadlines to finish routine tasks with success and satisfaction.
Leadership:
· Low-key, positive and very aware are the best ways to describe the leadership qualities of these people.
· Their leadership style is unassuming, empathetic, unifying, creative and quietly powerful.
· Usually they'll give credit for successes to others on their team.
· Setting long-term models to follow are the way these individuals lead.
· Because communication is so important to this style, others listen, understand and follow.
· Formulating excellent strategies and relationships with key people within their own and other organizations comes naturally to this leadership style.
· Sometimes it takes a while for others to recognize the qualities of these leaders because they don't flaunt it.
· These individuals can be extremely creative and thoughtful in finding the best path to take for success.