Cognitive Styles

Gulenko Cognitive Styles - Wikisocion

I wonder if anyone has heard of these.

The four styles are:

Casual-Determinist cognition - SEE, EII, ILE, LSI

Dialectical-Algorithmic cognition - SEI, EIE, ILI, LSE

Holographic-Panaramic cognition - SLE, LII, IEE, ESI

Vortical-Synergetic cognition - LIE, IEI, ESE, SLI

What is your type, and do you identify with your style? I am LIE, so I should identify with Vortical-Synergetic. While the article is kind of wordy and abstract, I find the style fits better than the alternate style, Dialectical-Algorithmic would, if I were ILI (the other type I sometimes consider for myself). I relate to his description of dynamics and positivists, the part about positivists being attracted to their opposites in groups as opposed to negativists who are attracted to similar people. The author says, negativists are polarizing, and positivists remove polarities. I see myself more as positivist, the description of dynamic totally fits me too but I was pretty sure about that to begin with. So positive plus dynamic is Vortical cognition...

This part of the article struck me as especially important (under conclusion):

Your thoughts will only firmly and without distortion penetrate public consciousness if your quartet learns your POV. They indeed think in the same form as you, but refract it through different kinds of activity. Only after passing through all the regular stages—from inception to development, debugging, and implementation—can an idea be fully ushered into reality. No need to confine to quadra limits. Real propagation occurs through the Supervision ring. Quadra is important, but only a way-station along this path.

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Thoughts?

I identify to some extent with all four of them, which I suspect is the case for most people who read that article. If I had to choose which one I most identify with, it would either be Vortical-Synergetic or Dialectical-Algorithmic. The one I least identify with is Causal-Deterministic.

I relate the least to Vortical-Synergetic, since it's way too random hence then, also chaotic by its experimental nature.
I've had a knack to do anything according to the proper step-by-step, so it's either Dialectical-Algoritmic or Holographical-Panoramic.