The authors espousing of deep problem understanding sound like it would be more at home in a PhD program / academia. Also, sometimes it's possible people just "

The authors espousing of deep problem understanding sound like it would be more at home in a PhD program / academia. Also, sometimes it's possible people just "pick wrong" in the sense that they don't or can't think far enough ahead to realize where their best fit will be professionally. Wouldn't be surprised if that's what's going here. For example, I'm pretty sure, in hindsight, my best fit would be as a psychiatrist / psychologist but I'm too far down the path as an engineer to really want to change course. Instead I've channeled my strengths and leanings by working in ML and user-centered design as much as possible. That helps but never fully makes my fish out of water feelings go away. I have much more of the "feeling" predisposition than the overwhelming "thinking" predisposition of eng teams I've always worked on. Earlier on I felt like this oppressed (in terms of values) minority but once I learned about innate personality type distributions I was able to stop taking it so personally and in fact use it to my advantage by taking on roles where my differences were in fact strengths (being the guy who made sure the UI didn't feel like dogshit, thinking through how to personalize our shopping predictions, etc.).