I haven't actually figured this out yet. If anyone reading this has, please tell me. Here are a few hints.
My mom worked as a reference librarian until I was 12, and now owns and runs a children's book store. She's a word person.
My dad has a PhD. in neurochemistry, and studied mathmatics, philosophy and religion in college. He thinks abstractly.
I go both ways. I can think in words, at least clearly enough to express myself, but I think, for the most part, abstractly. I'm a budding hacker, and I studied a lot of math in college.
I'm also a kinesthetic person. I've been juggling for 18 years now. I've also been doing Taekwondo for almost that long. Something that always makes me a little curious: whenever I see people I haven't seen for a while (perhaps those people who don't know me that well), their question is "Are you still juggling?" or "Are you still doing Taekwondo?".
My only answer is that I've still got a pulse. It's like knowing how to ride a bike. You simply can't forget it. I mean short of major brain damage, or having too much fun juggling chain saws.
For anyone who cares, I wrote up a little html page as an exercize that has the white belt and yellow belt one step sparring techniques that we use. (partly, I'm re learning these, and I want to have them available wherever I have net access ;-). One steps.
Here's a link to a juggling statistics program that I've written. It's written in C++ and it's still pretty raw, but one day I hope that it will be a valuble trainging tool for jugglers.
my resume (this is here for my convenience)