Overall, I'd liken it to a lossy compression. In terms of raw thinking, I'd say my throughput is most notable. My reaction time has never been the fastest and neither is that first thought. If you talk to me in real life this might not seem the case; it's weird, I'm almost constantly simulating branches of conversation in my head. If I don't have a quick reply you've probably said something I didn't expect, I expect a lot of things, and you're probably really interesting. Other times in fresh conversation, my thoughts come in too quick and I stumble on my words, I'm a bit of an impatient collector of thoughts.
So when it comes to solving a problem my brain kind of just instantly retrieves all the most reasonable ways I could fanthom it being solved. I check each of these pretty quickly too, but I find that I can be careless and perhaps a bit of a lazy thinker too. Lazy isn't the right word, just moreso novelty driven I guess. Once I've made out the shape of something a subconscious countdown for boredom begins. This isn't absolute though, when I'm working on something genuinely interesting the ideas keep coming and I'm continually interested in flywheel-y/fractal-y/recursive way. Feedback loops are awesome and I can't get enough of them.
If you think in a similar way, I think you'd appreciate fields that give feedback in some way, a lot are deterministic though really anything iterative works. Something like (though at this point moreso system design) programming (also design + maybe trading) really complement this archetype of thinking. The feedback is worth even a penalty assuming that you're rewarded for making the best possible thing and how fast you're able to do so. I think it's also quite helpful in analysis and in giving feedback. I can rip into basically everything since all the pros and cons just populate instantly in my head. Though as a novelty-seeking romanticist I don't review my work as much.
I wonder if this all stems from all the books I read as a kid. I really optimized for quantity rather than quality since I really loved world building and would almost exclusively read multi-part works. I'd contend that I had read more than almost anyone else in early middleschool (1). I'm also quite good at analogies since a lot of the ideas just rush in, though I've been trying to reason from first principles more often these days. I think this archetype of thinking complements both well though, so I have no regrets there.
(1) I have a few dozen pictures from maybe 3-10 years old reading comically sized books. Not only did I read Harry Potter when I was still in kindergarten, I had learned how to download and transfer over books from a desktop to my Kindle via USB at around 5-6 years old. I wasn't even really shown/taught this I was just incredibly tapped in. I was reading on Kindle Unlimited before this and I had basically cleared out all the 'young adult fantasy fiction' series. I actually remember there being a ranking for most books borrowed in primary (elementary school) and I was either top 2 or 3. One went to Cambridge and I don't know about the other, but I was totally reading longer books plus on my Kindle so it wasn't really fair. I remember one time going to middleschool to borrow the next book in the tetralogy and feeling very cool. By the time I actually went to middleschool I stopped reading paperbooks entirely and was instead reading webnovels. I was reading obscene amounts, like 16 hour days easily on the weekends. Even on schooldays I'd read at least 3 hours worth in school/on the way, and read for another 6-7 (sadly not a joke) hours till I fell asleep. I am by no means proud and actually think this was a tremendous detriment at times, but don't worry I was also crushing game leaderboards before and after these long periods of extreme reading. I just had a ton of time really, I'd blitz through my homework and I didn't have tutoring like my friends. Back to webnovels, these vary a lot in quality though some genuinely good ones, with an English origin, include Mother of Learning and Lord of The Mysteries. I also read tons of translated ones, e.g. Paragon of ____ and Omniscient ____ as well as some machine translated ones like ISSTH that I quite liked. The tropes were largely the same but I really appreciated the world building. It's sad that I read probably 20-30 over a million word count webnovels but remember only a few. I actually remember a fair amount of moments to some I don't even remember the names of. A common idea is the Dao of XYZ that a cultivator strives towards and I remember this one character severing a billion things for a hundred chapters straight to awaken the Dao of Severing that became obsolete a hundred chapters later. I don't read as much nowadays, and honestly I haven't read a lot of classics. I haven't even read the Lord of the Rings! I've found myself favoring short stories a lot more, I quite liked White Nights since I was able to finish it just reading little and often on every metro ride on a vacation to Taiwan. Going to university I've once again come to appreciate the paperback book. I want to fight back against an algorithm that curates me things and instead just pick random books I think look cool on a shelf. Today off a recommendation I went to borrow Spring Snow but also saw The Sound of the Mountain right next to it, which frankly had a way cooler cover. Will probably update soon on which was ultimately better, I always have high hopes for the underdog. Not sorry for this formatting btw, I'm not proud of a lot of this reading.
This was oneshot in about 30 mins of straight typing. If you've actually read everything here, I would love to know what you think (and how you think). Also, doesn't the structure of this entire thing just reflect my archetype of thinking?