Audile or Visile?
Barton Biggs, in his book Hedgehogging, describes two types of people--visiles and audiles.
Visiles primarily absorb information through the eyes by reading. They can read plans and have spatial thinking abilities, the ability to translate from two dimensional plans to three dimensional space. Howard Roark was probably a visile.
Audiles ingest information mostly through the ears, through talking and listening. They are good at putting together teams, and intuiting friction points by talking to team members. A lot of my really effective broker friends are talented audiles, sensing whether a deal can be made amazingly quickly.
Which one are you?
