Verbal
Fantasy Type
Verbal-Visual (Fantasy)
You turn the words you read or hear into images. You picture scenes from text and can just as easily put the images in your head into words. Stories and analogies deepen your understanding.
Strengths
- Vividly picturing scenes and people from text or talk
- Explaining clearly with analogies and stories
- Imagining others' situations and sensing their feelings
- Describing plans and ideas as concrete scenes
Where you may struggle
- Abstract theories or formulas without stories or examples are hard to absorb
- Imagination can run wide and blur the key points or facts
- Memorizing precise numbers or terms can be tiring
How to learn
- Turn what you want to remember into a story with characters and scenes
- Approach history through comics, novels, or biographies
- Understand abstract ideas by making your own everyday analogies
- Retell what you learned as a story, as if explaining it to someone
How to communicate with this type
- Add a concrete example — "say, in a situation where…" — not just the conclusion
- Share the backstory: why it's being done and for what purpose
- Pair numbers or specs with an image of where they're used
Tips when this type explains things
- Stories land well but can bury the point — open with a one-line conclusion
- Back up analogies with facts or numbers
- For a dictionary-type listener, hand over a bullet-point summary too
Roles where it shines
- Painting worlds with words — planning, copywriting, editing
- Designing around users' situations — UX, service design
- Roles that require imagining others' feelings — customer service, counseling, teaching
Ways to compensate
- When your imagination spreads, write down "three key points" to separate facts from images
- Attach terms and numbers to a scene in your mind as you learn them