It is, I submit, fairly obvious to anyone who has ever looked that people are either “readers” or “listeners” (excepting only the very small group who get their information through talking, and by watching with a form of psychic radar the reactions of the people they talk to; both President Franklin Roosevelt and President Lyndon Johnson belong in this category, as apparently did Winston Churchill). People who are both readers and listeners—trial lawyers have to be both, as a rule—are exceptions. It is generally a waste of time to talk to a reader. He only listens after he has read. It is
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Garret Hardin: literate, numerate, ecolate.
Refinement?: Readers/writers vs listeners/talkers. Two broad categories. But those who talk & carefully watch reactions are a unique variant. High social intelligence.
