# Birds, Frogs, and Beavers There are three major intellectual temperaments **Birds/Theorizers** Birds like to unify ideas **Frogs/Problem Solvers** Frogs like to solve problems **Beavers/Process Honers** Beavers focus on the algorithms of problem solving or theorizing itself The Bird/Frog dichotomy was originally from [[Freedman Dyson]] in [[Birds and Frogs - Paper]] [DRAFT: Three Intellectual Temperaments: Birds, Frogs and Beavers - LessWrong 2.0](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LcxNFGjPjKAm7wZvs/draft-three-intellectual-temperaments-birds-frogs-and)