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What are You? Theorist? Specialist? Or?

 

Are you a Theorist? Specialist? Generalist? Something else?

There are a couple of ways to figure out what you are in the general spectrum of place?

A.   If you pay close attention to the operation of a system, like keeping the railroads on time or running a plant, you are an operations person. These people keep the heartbeat of their organization healthy and ticking.

B.     If you love just one particular endeavor, such as art, law, physics, et al, you are a specialist. From your great trial lawyer to nuclear physicist to auto mechanic are completely needed. We depend on specialists for almost everything.

C.    If your priority is a working world and can live with or without theory, you may be a pragmatist. Pragmatists think of theories as tools to be used, rejected as needed.

D.   If you love all things and seeing the world in total, you are a generalist. Generalists look at the big picture, trying to see the framework of our lives in a holistic way. They try hard to understand where we stand and where the journey will take us.

E.    If you think the truth lies in theories, preferring them to contravening conditions, you are probably a theorist. Theorists are like specialists but work at a fundamentalist level, trying to understand the premises and axioms of theories, often trying to validate them. We do need theorists as the framers of knowledge.

F.    If your comfort or truth rests with a combination of knowledge, theories, and emotion, you are a postmodernist. Postmodernists view human emotion as companions to all we do, and are important components of the world. Many object to this approach as the emotional component seems to contradict knowledge and objectivity.

G.   Personally, I am into operations in the sense I’m good at it, but I do love theories and consider them to be general containers of knowledge - to be checked of course. I am basically a generalist.

Personally, I am into operations in the sense I’m good at it, but I do love theories and consider them to be general containers of knowledge - to be checked of course. I am basically a generalist.


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