Often in the conversations of young people, and even older people, one can notice such an explanation for the lack of knowledge in technical sciences as a "humanitarian mindset". However, a penchant for the humanities does not yet determine this kind of thinking. The conventional division of all people into "physicists" and "lyricists" is not entirely correct and scientific.
Abilities and mindset
Psychologists have established a relationship between the development of the cerebral hemispheres and abilities. So, the right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for visual-figurative thinking, creative imagination, perception of music, artistic images, etc. The left hemisphere is responsible for mathematical abilities and logical thinking.
People who have a more developed right hemisphere of the brain are more inclined to the humanities, reasoning, and philosophizing. Those with more development of the left hemisphere of the brain have an inherent inclination towards mathematical sciences, technical disciplines and logical reasoning.
But the inclination towards the humanities does not yet determine the humanities' mindset. Rather, it is simply a consequence of the characteristics that are inherent in humanities.
Features of people with a humanitarian mindset
Humanitarians by their mindset (not by education) know that each specific person or group of people has only a limited idea of the world. They realize that there is something different in the world: a different perception, a different opinion, a different reality, a different meaning, a different picture of the world, etc. After schooling for such people, after schooling on each issue that provides one correct solution or proof, it is easy at the university to study various scientific theories or paradigms that explain the same event or process in different ways. But this should not be confused with a love of philosophy and philosophy: the fact that they understand it does not make them lovers of this discipline. They may not have a liberal arts education, but a technical one, but at the same time they clearly realize how narrow their understanding of the world is. Conversely, lovers of books, music, films and professional humanitarians sometimes do not admit the idea that those around them may have completely different interests than they do.
Another distinctive quality of people with a humanitarian mindset is the ability to interact with others. This is clearly seen in the interaction between someone who accepts someone else's position and someone else's vision, and those who reject everything except their own point of view. If a person manages to comprehend the world of the interlocutor and establish contact without even sharing his views, then he is a typical humanist.
The humanist by his mentality knows that conventions rule the world. When such a person finds the answer to a question, he realizes that it is considered correct only at a given moment in time. Simply put, he realizes that truth as such does not exist, but only judgments, which at the moment are revered as truth.
A humanitarian mindset is often confused with visual-figurative thinking. This type of thinking presupposes a developed ability to imagine, imagine, compare, and, accordingly, understand and accept changes in social life, some new genres of literature, cinema, music. But this does not mean at all that all people with developed visual-figurative thinking are humanitarians in their mindset.
