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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's in your area of expertise, I think it is normal to instantly understand what the answer is.

When something new hits me, a problem that involves issues that I don't know enough about, I do a deep dive into the information. The answer comes in full, as if my magic, after I stop the intense focus.[/quote]

I don't get problems like that anymore in my area of expertise. Mostly, what exactly is broken. Now that we have isolated what is broken, why is it broken? Finally, what would be the easiest way to fix this. I work on complex systems involving millions of lines of code. [/quote]

Yes, which speaks to my first point. In my second point, the issue would be out of my expertise. I don't come up with instant answers when out of my expertise, but after a deep dive, once I stop the focus, the answer literarily pops into my head full blown. In the middle of the night. While taking a shower, cooking, doing something that has nothing to do with the issue, as if my brain is solving the problem without my being aware it's being solved. [/quote]

Your brain running a background process without your conscious involvement is not the same as not having a process.

You think that you are coming up with the answer "all at once" but that is not what is happening. You do have a process. You just do not seem to be able to break it down into steps, possibly because you think it is cool that things just come to you all at once, fully conceptualized. Why on earth would you trust an answer to a problem that you admit is outside your expertise that just "came to you"?

When I was learning to ride a bike, I had to think about how to hold my body to stay balanced. I had to think about which handle was the brake. That was 40 years ago, so now when I get on a bike, I just ride the bike and there is no "process" of operating the bike that I consciously participate in.

Maybe what you are saying is that you have a lot of automatic processes and do not ruminate about decisions like some people do. Maybe you would benefit from explicating your process more, since what it sounds like is that you don't feel like you should have to show your work.[/quote]

Op here. I’m not that PP but for me things like swimming and riding a bike that others remembered automatically did not come back to me as an adult after years of not doing either. [/quote]

Well, when you relearned how to do those things as an adult, did you think about the more granular process, in reflection? When you are learning how to do something new, what is your learning process like?

I agree with the poster above that suggests this is related to processing speed. There are definitely people who process faster than others, but there IS processing happening. It's not just magically knowing the answer.[/quote]

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