Brainpower: why mind matters

Dear Editor:

Re: 'Paying for an architect's brain' (Oct. 9)

Your article brings top of mind an illuminating sentiment of my pre-real-estate-career mentor and business partner of 16 years -- a mechanical engineer who said, "Those who are working with their hands (doing) are always suspect of those who are working with their minds (thinking)."

I'd put my money on the "incubation mode" -- the process of indirect analysis and subconscious thought challenging, collecting and sifting random "snippets and bits" from a historical multitude of concepts and ideas -- which is precisely what professionals do that brings HUGE value.

Oh sure, people make do and even sometimes luck out, but my guess is that rarely an epiphany or eureka moment is the result of neophyte thought.

Rachel Cheeney
Broker-owner, Pro Resource Realty
Waterloo, Iowa

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