The way I've viewed something similar is top-down vs bottom-up thinkers. top-down - makes decisions based on intuition, rationalizes them afterwards if necess

The way I've viewed something similar is top-down vs bottom-up thinkers. top-down - makes decisions based on intuition, rationalizes them afterwards if necessary - quick reactions to new information - more flexible (sometimes inconsistent) beliefs - faster to adopt new ideas that align with their feelings, but also more resistant to ideas that they don't like bottom-up - systems based reasoning - builds internal frameworks around ideas - consistency is paramount - slower reactions to new information - can be seen to have more "unique" thoughts or insights through drawing parallels in their internally developed frameworks - can be more rigid when it comes to new ideas, but not stubborn. it either fits into their frameworks or it doesn't I'd say it's a spectrum, but people tend to significantly favor one way or another in my experience. I feel like top-down thinkers would be much more likely to be story-based, and bottom-up fact-based.