> Is it at all possible that different people like different things, or maybe think differently, or perhaps find different workflows to be productive?

Yes. But I don't think that's entirely down to innate or inborn characteristics, I think it mostly comes down to experiences. I tried to learn TDD from Beck's book and walked away thinking it was nonsense.

Then I went to work at Pivotal Labs and I got a chance to learn it with people whose job consists largely of teaching it.

Neither experience is about my largely inherited characteristics. They were experiences. Both were valid in themselves.

I have experienced TDD in the good and the bad. I prefer the good, but I know why most folks consider it to be bullshit: that's how they've experienced it.