Doing or Thinking or Thinking of Doing?

Something Cali Lewis mentioned on a recent GeekBrief episode flipped a switch in my brain and sent me off on a wild goose chase of ideation*.

See if this provokes any different thoughts for you.

Cali reported that Twitter was changing it’s basic question from “What are you doing?” to “What are you thinking about?”

THAT restarted a mind game I play with myself – Am I a human being or a human doing? Am I more about what I do, or more about who I am? Am I more effective when I focus on activities or ideas?

Thinking? Doing?

Is there really a separation?

Seems that the DOING part comes from the left side of my brain and the THINKING part is managed more by the right side. Or is it the other way around? What would Dan Pink say?

Does the logical and linear left side actually control my THOUGHTS allowing the sensitive and aesthetic right side to play with activities?

Am I a Doer?
Am I a Thinker?
Do I think about doing?
What do I do when I think?
What do I think about doing?
Do I sometimes do without thinking?
Do I sometimes think without doing?
Can I think one thing and do another?
Can I do one thing while I think another?

What do you think I should do?

* Ideation is one of my StrengthFinder themes, if fact it’s my number one theme. People with this theme tend to enjoy the exercise of exploring ideas that might not go anywhere. They (we) generally cause others to shake their heads and walk away. If you come into contact with one of these people, they (we) are mostly harmless and when left to our own thoughts we can come up with some pretty interesting things.