Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ...
by gregmac on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:33AM
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What you described is definitely how I feel when I really get into the zone of something, whether it be coding something very specific or doing overall design/architecture.
As I get into it, it suddenly snaps into place, and I have a mental picture (which is more visceral than visual) of how all the moving pieces fit (or will fit) together, and can start adding on to it. With coding in particualr, usually my brain is going faster than my ability to type.
I absolutely love that feeling.
think there is more to it than this, especially on the highest ends
think the next biggest impact comes from having a large solid internal mental model of the world, of cause-and-effect, of action-reaction, perhaps two or more separate models, one or more models are "the way it is supposed to work" and one or more models are "the way it might work"
think the next higher level of smart/genius is the purely creative/original/innovative/brainstorming/fount-based: ideas and urges and visions and impulses that arise from somewhere that a purely logical/controlling/categorical mindset can't nail down, and yet, it... happens. and yet we feel it, we experience it, we feel it, we can imagine it. whether it is real or fantastical, possible or impossible.
I'd argue that the very smartest of us all may somehow leverage from all three of these levels