People with high Analytical Talents are able to manage large amounts of information and easily distill the mass of information into something succinct. Here is the description of the Analytical Talent Theme from the Gallup Business Journal:
Your Analytical theme challenges other people: “Prove it. Show me why what you are claiming is true.” In the face of this kind of questioning some will find that their brilliant theories wither and die. For you, this is precisely the point. You do not necessarily want to destroy other people’s ideas, but you do insist that their theories be sound. You see yourself as objective and dispassionate. You like data because they are value free. They have no agenda. Armed with these data, you search for patterns and connections. You want to understand how certain patterns affect one another. How do they combine? What is their outcome? Does this outcome fit with the theory being offered or the situation being confronted? These are your questions. You peel the layers back until, gradually, the root cause or causes are revealed. Others see you as logical and rigorous. Over time they will come to you in order to expose someone’s “wishful thinking” or “clumsy thinking” to your refining mind. It is hoped that your analysis is never delivered too harshly. Otherwise, others may avoid you when that “wishful thinking” is their own.
Because they are like information and they have a natural capacity to manage them well. They are also able to very quickly boil down large amounts of information into their essence. They are able to also cut out the fluff and get down to the root very quickly (and as long as they have enough information to analyse).
During out meet-up group discussions, one of our members with high analytical was able to constantly (and naturally) summarise a discussion into 1-2 sentence that aptly captures what was said. He said that it was probably from having to take minutes from meeting due to his job, but this is also a talent that doesn’t come naturally to many people. The ability to summarise a dialogue so succinctly also helps to ensure that the important points of a conversation doesn’t get lost in the mass of information that we sometimes face.
Do you know of people with high Analytical Talents? What are your observations of them?
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