I'm not a quick witted person. In fact, I’ve always been worried about my brain’s slow processing time.
But recently, I've realised that slow processing time is not as much of an issue as I thought it was. And even if I was wrong about that, I still think I’d do better for myself by leaning into it, instead of spending energy trying to fight it.
In this essay, I want to talk about some ways I've been able to skirt around my lack of quick wittedness!
To get what I mean by slow processing time, imagine common tasks that require some mental energy to complete, and how fast you can do them.
Here are some examples:
In a mathematics context, it would be doing mental math to figure out things like the split of a restaurant bill.
In a social context, it would be coming up with witty responses in conversation.
In a recall context, it would be quickly remembering facts.
In a sports context, it would be like a badminton player’s quick ability to hit the shuttle in a gap.
In a job interview context, it would be solving small scale coding problems and quickly designing algorithms.
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