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Yeah. That does work. I do that sometimes, though my eyes start to hurt when I roll them up for that long.

I also find it easier to do something with my eyes than to do nothing while thinking. That’s probably just me.

In the future, I might want an led embedded in one of my temples, that will blink like a network switch port or hdd light that indicates brain activity.



Also filler text while you think is good to practice. “That’s actually a well informed question, what I’ve seen is….” Buys you 5 seconds if you can say it on autopilot and think while your mouth is moving


I worked with a guy who would always start with “to a first approximation…”

After a while it started to grate on me because it came across as “here comes my poorly formed first thought”


lol, yeah the trick is to use them as sparingly as possible and have a dozen or so to rotate. I'm not sure if I qualify as a slow thinker the way OP and some others here are discussing it. But, I do frequently need more time to answer complex problems. I've also started just feeling OK telling people I can follow up with them on certain questions as it's too complex to answer off top of my head. As with anything, it's a balance, I find if you can't answer simple questions people will lose confidence in your answers.


That is a hilarious bodymod. And considering that is is possible to get rough brain activity indicators in a non-invasive manner, something like it could actually be made.




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