Finding out too late that your new business partner, new hire, or significant other lacks critical thinking skills can be devastating.
Those with strong critical thinking skills, or thinkers, are very analytical in their decision-making. Others, feelers, are much more emotional.
Although thinkers sometimes distance themselves from their emotions, feelers typically live in their emotions and lack critical thinking skills.
Critical thinking skills involve some of the following personality traits, all of which I effectively assess in my profiles involving handwriting analysis and comprehensive astrology and numerology: Objectivity; analytical ability; developed mental ability; ability to make distinctions; problem-solving ability; sense of discernment.
Handwriting is considered controversial because it uncovers subconscious character, the real personality, behind the public façade. It’s one of the most objective and accurate forms of personality analysis.
However, you need more than just handwriting analysis, or only astrology, for example, to achieve consistently high accuracy rates. That’s why I use multiple forms of analysis, comprising a thorough system of checks and balances.
Personas can be very deceptive; you can’t tell for sure if someone has a more analytical or emotional temperament simply by talking to them or even through extensive interview sessions.
Also, self-analysis is subjective. A person may believe herself to be more analytical than emotional, but while under pressure, it’s clear she isn’t, and her analytical abilities and sense of reason are overpowered by her emotions. That’s not necessarily negative, though you shouldn’t put your livelihood at risk involving this person and a position that requires acute analytical abilities in high-stress situations.
Listen to how a person responds when you ask her opinion. It’s common for feelers to respond with, “I feel like,” instead of, “I think.” Additionally, feelers typically can’t tell stories very well; they focus on how the circumstances made them feel and don’t clearly relay the who, what, how, when, and where.
Feelers might secretly agree with you on a point of contention in principle, but she might reactively disagree because she didn’t like the way you said it; the way you said it didn’t make her feel good. Feelers tend to dislike facts if the facts disagree with their feelings. You can’t trust such a person to make important decisions.They also tend to have difficulty understanding the subtleties in life, have a limited worldview, and are inclined to be naïve and self-absorbed. These types of people, feelers, tend to excel in positions requiring emotional support, such as taking care of young children.
Everyone thinks and everyone feels, but some people are much more analytical in their decision-making, and others are much more emotional.
Knowing whether a person is more rational or emotional not only helps you to reduce your exposure to risk but also helps you to interact more effectively with that person on his or her level.
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