{"id":14154,"date":"2026-02-13T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:12:45","slug":"odd-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/13\/odd-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/social-instincts\/202602\/3-unique-ways-smart-people-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Psychology Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3 Unique Ways Smart People Think<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Three &#8216;odd&#8217; thinking patterns are consistently linked to higher intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/docs\/editorial-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reviewed by Lybi Ma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.psychologytoday.com\/assets\/styles\/article_inline_half_caption\/public\/field_blog_entry_images\/2026-02\/Paint2_LUMEZIAShutterstock_1048705850.jpeg.jpg?itok=cPE0d9aH\" alt=\"Lumezia Shutterstock\" title=\"Lumezia Shutterstock\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: Lumezia Shutterstock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People often picture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/social-instincts\/202602\/2-annoying-habits-that-actually-signal-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intelligence<\/a> as mental efficiency. We tend to imagine a smart person as someone who responds quickly, has strong opinions, and sees things clearly. However, highly intelligent people are not always faster, calmer, or more decisive. Sometimes, their minds are busier, slower, and more conflicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my work as a psychologist, I\u2019ve noticed that people with higher cognitive ability are often misunderstood simply because their mental habits don\u2019t always look the way we expect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intelligence<\/a>\u00a0to look. These tendencies get labeled as overthinking, indecision, or hesitation when, in reality, they reflect deeper cognitive processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/social-instincts\/202602\/3-unique-ways-smart-people-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Psychology Today<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Psychology Today 3 Unique Ways Smart People Think Three &#8216;odd&#8217; thinking patterns are consistently linked to higher intelligence. Reviewed by Lybi Ma People often picture\u00a0intelligence as mental efficiency. We tend to imagine a smart person as someone who responds quickly, has strong opinions, and sees things clearly. However, highly intelligent people are not always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14156,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions\/14156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}