# Compare and Contrast - Input and Includer
🔆 - - - Gallup's definition: - - - 🔆
• Input®(搜集): People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.
• Includer®(分析): People exceptionally talented in the Includer theme accept others. They show awareness of those who feel left out and make an effort to include them.
Input is a talent theme in the Strategic-Thinking domain (green)
Includer is a talent theme in the Relationship-Building domain (blue)
🔆 - - - Similarities - - - 🔆
Both Input and Includer:
• Are "gathering" themes
• Embrace diversity
• Expand a circle
🔆 - - - Differences - - - 🔆
• Input - goes out to gather information, ideas, and perhaps even tangible things.
• Includer - goes out to gather people and bringing them into the circle.
• Input - values a diversity of ideas, expanding the circle of knowledge to gather useful information.
• Includer - values a diversity of people, widening the circle to consider multiple viewpoints and bring others in.