The fact that people don’t get along all the time suggests that we don’t understand or value the ways other people see the world. A - Tom Butler-Bowdon

We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species.

But first we have to accept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results, and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.

A preference for extraversion (seeing life in terms of the external world) or introversion (greater interest in the inner world of ideas) is independent of your preferences for sensing, thinking, intuition, and feeling.