Working in or out?

Often times I am that individual in my group of friends that always comes up with a very broad goal or dream. Through these ideas of mine I look at things as a whole and not the specific details thus, I would lean more towards working out. However, I am very curious and much interested on how to go about these ideas. For instance, if I wanted to know how the mind functions I would further investigate more specifically through the categories of thinking and emotions. To conclude, I would study psychological phenomenons both working out and in as working in both ways allows me to increase my knowledge and understanding of what I am researching. Through working out and in, I would take the normative science approach because to state the qualities of how jealousy is seen/ acted out and how it affects the individual is quite obvious as everyone has experienced this.