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• noobermin 5y ago
  It is important that people don't take this thing seriously. As an undergraduate in physics, I sort of prided myself on being able to "derive things from scratch" which is the culture in physics, given profs gave tests with the formulae and physical constants so you never really had to memorize, you just needed to show your work. At the time, honestly, I looked down humanities and history and even bio students as they were just memorizers who didn't have a deep understanding of things. When I went to graduate school, one of my best professors said he heard people amongst my cohort saying things like this, that physicists are good a deriving and are not memorizers, he made the joke that he thought that people saying this were doing so to weaken the competition, so to speak. The idea that any set of skills is not necessary to be a scientist just makes you a worse scientist than others who have those skills. At this point in life, I've learned that holding on to things like your MBTI scores as if it's your identity honestly just limits you. Like imagine saying, "I'm a python person, I'm not able to do ruby. It's against my personality," instead of it really being what it should be seen as, just another skill to learn or one your just haven't learned yet (or might not even want to!) Instead, saying "I use python in my daily work, I'm less familiar with ruby" makes more sense because that's how it is. So, ditto that with everything else honestly, I feel like people can have preferences and that's fine, like you can enjoy reading a book more than playing a video game with spatial reasoning, but limiting yourself to being a "math person" or a "people person" or a "reading person" is just that, limiting yourself.