I have thought of myself as a slow thinker but have shifted to the view that it's more about myself putting a higher value on the thoughts that inherently take time to reach.

Other, "quicker" people are satisfied with superficial ideas and sometimes don't even care about factual correctness. But when I finally form my opinion, it is always very considered. When quick people are questioned it's often evident that depth is lacking.

So I am slow only because I do alot more processing, simply put.

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b3kart 2 days ago | parent [-]

True depth of thought is often achieved through exposing your ideas to others. It’s scary and uncomfortable, but ultimately you might spend months refining an argument that the first other person to look at will find a flaw in. We don’t see our own blind spots (by definition).

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kaffekaka 2 days ago | parent [-]

If you spend months in isolation, true, but if it is a matter of answering something on the spot vs the next day that is not a problem.

But the main point of my comment was that the situations in which I have felt slow, I have later realized that is only because some other people confidently state the first thought that comes to their mind. They are quick to answer but not any quicker to the final conclusion (which may be days away).

	▲	actionfromafar 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		And depending on maturity and team dynamics, that may or may not be bad thing. A couple of people confidently spitballing some bullshit between them can reach a solution quite nicely if there is no prestige involved and a shared understanding that "oops, this was wrong, try again" is an expected part of the process.