I've always thought it was natural to do both. I think in pictures and words. Each can be more efficient in differing circumstance. Lacking either seems unnatural and a handicap.
Really it goes further than that. Some thoughts are pure math. Some thoughts can be a combination. Lacking any of these seems defective to me.
Perhaps, but we all have our crosses to bear, and while I admittedly am not a very good interior decorator I have with great difficulty come to terms with that and never really had any problems anywhere else.
I would counter however, by pointing out that being extremely good at one thing is often better than being decently good at several things and is a perfectly valid trade-off. A mix of generalists and specialists is ultimately more beneficial to a society than the communist ideal where everyone does everything equally well.
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