Are you a 'keen bean', 'worrywart' or 'hothead'? 10 thinker types and what they mean 

Oxford-based academic Marius Ostrowski has broken down how we think as individuals into 10 different types of thinkers
Are you a 'keen bean', 'worrywart' or 'hothead'? 10 thinker types and what they mean 

Marius Ostrowski says we all fall into one or more of these 10 memorably-named distinct mindsets — from the Keen Bean to the Agoniser, the Happy Camper to the Worrywart, the Cool Cat to the Gloomster.

If you've ever been with a work colleague and suddenly realised, ‘we’re just talking past each other here’ — or with a friend and wondered, ‘how can he think like that, I don’t get it’, Marius Ostrowski’s new book, How We Think, could well have the answer.

Bringing together evidence from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and political science, the Oxford-based academic breaks down our thinking into 10 "thinker types". He says we all fall into one or more of these 10 memorably-named distinct mindsets — from the Keen Bean to the Agoniser, the Happy Camper to the Worrywart, the Cool Cat to the Gloomster.

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