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Content: The holistic person tends to approach a subject by trying to understand its overall impact, gistor general meaning. How does holistic thinking contrast with analytic thinking? Holistic people often excel in social situations requiring sensitivity, intuition and tact. Their ability to get a general feeling about a situation may open their minds to subtle nuances of interaction. If the two cognitive styles align with the two modes of thought, a holistic person might be a skilled parallel processor. A correct response evolves out of wide­spread simultaneous activity instead of resulting from a controlled, step by step process. Why does analytic thinking predominate in schools? Analytic thought predominates in schools because it must be taught. Intuition, by contrast, seems to come naturally. As a rule, if you want to get better at analytic thinking, you have to get an