I agree, I can't grasp extremely non-linear ideas, what ever that means. :eek:
Here is an example of what I would consider to be a non-linear idea. See if you can grasp it. :
"I saw a rabbit in the woods. Now what did I do with my shoehorn?"
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Here is an example of what I would consider to be a non-linear idea. See if you can grasp it. :
"I saw a rabbit in the woods. Now what did I do with my shoehorn?"
Niederhoffer is so 2007
Disadvantages of Nonlinear Thinkers
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8656021_linear-nonlinear-thinkers.html
- Being a nonlinear thinker has some downsides. Some nonlinear thinkers have learning challenges such as attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or Asperger syndrome, according to the book “Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults.” People diagnosed with these disorders tend to think in a nonlinear way -- so much so that they can be difficult to keep on track, are easily distracted and may need special accommodations. In a classroom or office setting, they may be disruptive or unfocused if not supervised properly or challenged sufficiently. Nonlinear thinkers may miss an easy solution to a problem because they are looking too far out of the box.
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8656021_linear-nonlinear-thinkers.html
Disadvantages of Nonlinear Thinkers
- Being a nonlinear thinker has some downsides. Some nonlinear thinkers have learning challenges such as attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or Asperger syndrome, according to the book “Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults.” People diagnosed with these disorders tend to think in a nonlinear way -- so much so that they can be difficult to keep on track, are easily distracted and may need special accommodations. In a classroom or office setting, they may be disruptive or unfocused if not supervised properly or challenged sufficiently. Nonlinear thinkers may miss an easy solution to a problem because they are looking too far out of the box.
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8656021_linear-nonlinear-thinkers.html
They also become 100 millionaires and billionaires, live in homes most only dream about and design their own lives. Not to mention creating world changing ideas.
The normals generally suffer lives of quiet desperation.
I agree that non-linear thinkers have a much larger variability in life outcomes. However, they are also responsible for most human progress. The best the linear folks can do is attempt to hang on to, refine, and maintain the creations that non-linear creative folks achieved which brought us out of the cave.
Disadvantages of Nonlinear Thinkers
- Being a nonlinear thinker has some downsides. Some nonlinear thinkers have learning challenges such as attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or Asperger syndrome, according to the book “Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults.” People diagnosed with these disorders tend to think in a nonlinear way -- so much so that they can be difficult to keep on track, are easily distracted and may need special accommodations. In a classroom or office setting, they may be disruptive or unfocused if not supervised properly or challenged sufficiently. Nonlinear thinkers may miss an easy solution to a problem because they are looking too far out of the box.
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8656021_linear-nonlinear-thinkers.html
how do you know they are responsible for most human progress?
Isn't it obvious?
William Manchester wrote in the Last Lion:
"University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota have found that
teachers smile on children with high IQs and frown upon those with creative minds.
Intelligent but uncreative students accept conformity, never rebel,
and complete their assignments with dispatch and to perfection.
The creative child, on the other hand, is manipulative, imaginative, and intuitive.
He is likely to harass the teacher.
He is regarded as wild, naughty, silly, undependable, lacking in seriousness or even promise.
His behavior is distracting; he doesn't seem to be trying;
he gives unique answers to banal questions, touching off laughter among the other children.
E. Paul Torrance of Minnesota found that 70 percent of pupils rated high in creativity
were rejected by teachers picking a special class for the intellectually gifted.
The Goertzels concluded that a Stanford study of genius,
under which teachers selected bright children,
would have excluded Churchill, Edison, Picasso, and Mark Twain."
"University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota have found that
teachers smile on children with high IQs and frown upon those with creative minds.
Intelligent but uncreative students accept conformity, never rebel,
and complete their assignments with dispatch and to perfection.
The creative child, on the other hand, is manipulative, imaginative, and intuitive.
He is likely to harass the teacher.
He is regarded as wild, naughty, silly, undependable, lacking in seriousness or even promise.
His behavior is distracting; he doesn't seem to be trying;
he gives unique answers to banal questions, touching off laughter among the other children.
E. Paul Torrance of Minnesota found that 70 percent of pupils rated high in creativity
were rejected by teachers picking a special class for the intellectually gifted.
The Goertzels concluded that a Stanford study of genius,
under which teachers selected bright children,
would have excluded Churchill, Edison, Picasso, and Mark Twain."