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Temple Grandin: Unlock Your Inner Engineer with Pattern Thinking! #shorts

3 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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In this short, Temple Grandin explains the concept of a "pattern thinker," describing it as a music‑and‑math oriented mind typical of traditionally trained engineers. She highlights how such thinkers excel at designing clever mechanical equipment for food processing plants and handling systems involving power, water, boilers, refrigeration, and structural reliability, emphasizing their propensity to think in patterns.

You have your pattern thinker. This is your music and math mind, your traditional degreed engineer, heavy in math. So if we're building a food processing plant, for example, my kind of mind is all the clever mechanical equipment. I call that clever engineering. A little more mathematician does power, water, boilers, refrigeration, make sure the roof doesn't fall down. They're good at music and math. They think in patterns.