Two Kinds Of People

By Kleinheider Posted on September 22, 2008 at 6:38 am

Rex Hammock is a glass half full kind of guy:

Some of us view the world as physical scientists: we see everything breaking, declining and dying. We see that even about ourselves (and for most of us, our bodies are breaking as we age). We see it about institutions like government and media. We see it about our cities and our economies and our churches and schools — and all social structures. And some of us view the world as engineers: we see all things — especially broken things — as something that needs improving or fixing — and that can be fixed. And we start looking for the right tools.

We need scientists and we need engineers.

I love them both but I was wired to be an engineer.

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