I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
We slow thinkers are among good company, including Charles Darwin:<p>&quot;I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance, Huxley. I am therefore a poor critic: a paper or book, when first read, generally excites my admiration, and it is only after considerable reflection that I perceive the weak points. My power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought is very limited; and therefore I could never have succeeded with metaphysics or mathematics. My memory is extensive, yet hazy: it suffices to make me cautious by vaguely telling me that I have observed or read something opposed to the conclusion which I am drawing, or on the other hand in favour of it; and after a time I can generally recollect where to search for my authority. So poor in one sense is my memory, that I have never been able to remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;charles-darwins-reflections-mind&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;charles-darwins-reflections-mind&#x2F;</a>