I heard an interesting observation from a student yesterday. She said that she and her friend always switch math papers to grade them in class, and they've noticed that they get about the same number of problems wrong each time.
The difference, she said, was that her friend always finished all the problems and got a few wrong, while she, herself, never seemed to finish all the work, but got each completed problem right. She just lost points on the unfinished ones, in other words.
This is an interesting example of "deep" versus "surface" thinkers. Deep thinking is characteristic of people who are "global processors," which means they can be very powerful thinkers, but it can take them longer to dig in and sort out thoughts. Deep thinkers with global brains seem to bury information deep inside, so it can take a little bit longer to retrieve and process things.
It doesn't matter what sort of brain type you have--of course, we're all very different and individual in the way we work and think. But the real point is to observe how your brain seems to work and make the most of the time and tools you have on hand.
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