[marcv81]

I used to think like you until I met a coworker. He could not code to save his life, nobody in the team liked working with him. Until one day we had a boring data entry task. He could do it for hours at a time, and barely made any mistake. This experience taught me something.

[kumarvvr]

To each his own I guess. Maybe that person is most comfortable in a semi- auto pilot mode. I have noticed that some people are very much averse to prolonged thinking / problem solving / creative work. These are the kinds of people, who, if stuck in a problem, go to their friends and family for advise and solve their problems. They usually have a lot of people / socializing / networking skills.

I myself am an introvert and love to sit by myself and think of solutions for problems, be it work / life related. I am very bad at networking and usually go to a very very small set of people to discuss any problems I am facing, that I am unable to solve myself.

[cgriswald]

I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive. I love to sit and think in a problem. I also love to turn off my brain completely and solve sudoku for hours on end while my mind is elsewhere.

[kumarvvr]

That's really interesting, about the sudoku thing. I love to do those puzzles but I go full into the stuff and can't think anything else while solving for them.

[alexanderdmitri]

What did it teach you? I'm having trouble seeing the relevance.

[pm90]

People have their competencies which may not often be evident.

I do still think that, in the hyper competitive corporate world today, such kinds of people will get shafted regularly until they realize themselves what their great skills are and build on them.

[quickthrower2]

Maybe don't autofire your 0.1Xers?

[dlivingston]

What's a 0.1Xer?

[quickthrower2]

Amazingly it's hard to find a good link on this topic.

Anyway it's from some study years ago that the most productive people are 10 times more productive than the least productive people. These are called 10x-ers (assuming they exist).

0.1xer is a play on that to talk to the least productive people in a team.

[Wowfunhappy]

That some individuals are better at concentrating on mundane tasks.

[empath75]

I literally learned how to code to get out of a single boring data entry task.