What makes some people 'doers'?

[Echobelly]

Bear with me on this one.... I sometimes wonder how some people are so good at getting off their arses and doing big stuff, stuff I just couldn't begin to imagine doing.

For example, a chance encounter on a holiday inspired my bro-in-law and his wife to start an amazing charity still going to this day, funding a massive project in another country. I can imagine if I'd had that encounter I'd have been 'Oh, it would be nice to do something about that', but I'd never think what, let actually get round to doing anything.

Or starting a business - I can't imagine how people start anything beyond a simple freelancing one-person type thing. I mean, sometimes I've had an idea that I supposed might make a business, but I would have no idea how to start, I probably wouldn't have any useful contacts (in my case I also hate risk, uncertainty, long hours and debt, so I was never going to have my own business!). How do people do that?

I accept I will never be a 'doer', and I massively admire those who are, but I wonder what it is that makes some people that way?

Such an interesting thread. I'm totally a 'doer' but unfortunately only in my head. I am always coming up with plans, ideas, projects and businesses in quite some detail but never do them which irritates me intensely. They are always quite large projects which on some level I find interesting because perhaps I know I'll never do them?
Small, necessary things like weeding the garden or clearing out a cupboard rarely get done, which I find annoys me even more.

I also worry that children who have parents who 'do' have more fulfilling
childhoods. Ours seem happy at home but is that because they are used to a slowish pace of life?

I know a few people that appear to have twice as many hours in the day as me to do stuff. I envy them but at the same time they exhaust me. I have a short attention span and tick many of the boxes when it comes to poor executive function. I do wonder if I have some kind of disorder, especially as one of my children shows similar traits but also has hyperfocus.