You can see the answer clearly without having travelled there in neat, visible steps. When someone asks how you reached it, you have to reverse-engineer a straight path through thinking that arrived by connections, leaps and instinct.
- solving the problem quickly and then spending longer explaining the solution
- knowing which design works but struggling to list the reasons in order
- being asked for calculations after the correct number seemed to arrive whole
- reconstructing a tidy process for work that actually involved several sudden leaps
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
"Okay, but how did you get there? You have to show your work."
My brain connected ten different dots at once. It wasn't a straight line; it was a flash of lightning that just illuminated the answer.
"If you can't explain it, maybe you don't really understand it."
I understand it so deeply that I'm now trying to reverse-engineer a map for a place I instinctively teleported to. It takes a minute.
"You're being defensive. It's a simple request for the process."
It feels like my brain's entire operating system is being questioned. It’s exhausting to have to justify an intuitive leap that I know is solid.
"You were so quiet, I thought you'd checked out of the conversation."
I was running a thousand background processes and simulations. The silence was just my brain compiling the code before the final answer appeared.
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