Of my two friends who I talk the most math with, I explain to one of them with examples and the other with general statements. I don’t know why it helps, I just know from experience that I have to give examples to one and general statements to the other.
It reminds me of the witch powers from Alicorn’s Twilight fanfic. Some witches have power over the same thing, experienced through different senses.
Such witches were especially powerful working in pairs. I wonder if there’s anything special about collaborations between example thinkers and general thinkers? I’m an example thinker, and with my general thinker friend, a common pattern is that he’ll conjecture, and I’ll search for counterexamples.
Speaking as a abstract thinker, examples itch. I can’t work with someone throwing out examples on an idea I’m not fully clear about. The examples are too irritating for me to maintain my attention on the problem and I get stuck shooting down the parts of the examples that are too specific. I’ve learned to tolerate examples as a check, but I am not be able to work too deeply with example oriented thinkers.
Of my two friends who I talk the most math with, I explain to one of them with examples and the other with general statements. I don’t know why it helps, I just know from experience that I have to give examples to one and general statements to the other.
It reminds me of the witch powers from Alicorn’s Twilight fanfic. Some witches have power over the same thing, experienced through different senses.
Such witches were especially powerful working in pairs. I wonder if there’s anything special about collaborations between example thinkers and general thinkers? I’m an example thinker, and with my general thinker friend, a common pattern is that he’ll conjecture, and I’ll search for counterexamples.
Speaking as a abstract thinker, examples itch. I can’t work with someone throwing out examples on an idea I’m not fully clear about. The examples are too irritating for me to maintain my attention on the problem and I get stuck shooting down the parts of the examples that are too specific. I’ve learned to tolerate examples as a check, but I am not be able to work too deeply with example oriented thinkers.