I would love to say "No! This is not the case at all! One can act in either mode just fine. We're not prisoners of our tendencies!"
But from my experience with myself and friends, I think, sadly, this is typically not the case. People can act in either mode, but tend to have a proclivity, whether born or cultivated, for one over the other. You can do the other, but it will require extra effort for lesser results.
There are unicorns that can do both brilliantly. But much fewer and farther between than those who claim they can do both.
I've always been strongly on the engineery side myself, but have tended to fall in with artistic types socially. In my experience, artsies often fall short of being able to articulate ideas concretely, and thus can't easily interface with people that need a delineated plan. Which makes us engineeries tend to think they're soft brained. But in fact, they can often execute even highly complex systematic projects well. They just can't tell you how they did it.
But from my experience with myself and friends, I think, sadly, this is typically not the case. People can act in either mode, but tend to have a proclivity, whether born or cultivated, for one over the other. You can do the other, but it will require extra effort for lesser results.
There are unicorns that can do both brilliantly. But much fewer and farther between than those who claim they can do both.
I've always been strongly on the engineery side myself, but have tended to fall in with artistic types socially. In my experience, artsies often fall short of being able to articulate ideas concretely, and thus can't easily interface with people that need a delineated plan. Which makes us engineeries tend to think they're soft brained. But in fact, they can often execute even highly complex systematic projects well. They just can't tell you how they did it.