There are many different types of thinkers and neurotypes. Every thinker can think in different ways, but will be wired in a specific way that can be detected in brain scans.
There will be overlaps in the ways people think, and there are variables that affect your process. For example, even the term “neurodivergent” is loaded and sometimes controversial. It started off as a way to make autism become more accepted and understood by society, but the term has of course evolved and caused a lot of discussion and debate and disagreement.
Humans have different thinking styles
But neurodivergent and neurotype are often used to refer to the different ways a person processes information, different thinking styles. And they’re related to todays topic: top-down and bottom-up thinking.
The way we think affects the way we learn, do, and perform improv. And different ways of thinking can complement your scene partner(s) and balance out a team and/or show.
It helps to have a detailed (or at least thoughtful) understanding of what each person brings to a team in terms of their strengths. And this strength can include the way we think or process information.
And it also helps to understand this for YOURSELF. You can focus on getting really, extra, bonus-level good at what YOU do good. Do all the things, learn all the things, and play to your natural strengths most often.
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