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If anyone is interested, here are a couple of other qualities that might be correlated with this one. I wonder if anyone else sees the same patterns:

- aphantasia (not seeing images in my head) - being of eastern-european / ashkenazi jewish descent - reading a ton as a child instead of socializing - liking intuitive reasoning and geospatial reasoning, such as physics over logic, algebra over analysis (within math), higher-level languages over systems-level ones, and OOP over functional programming - being very distractable / ADD and easily addicted to things like video games

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I feel like I experience this in a similar way to yourself.

I also struggle to see images in my head sometimes, I am mostly of european decent (German/Czechia on one side - Australian/English on the other side). Loved reading as a child, although I wouldn't say instead of socialising but I read a lot more than was typical.

Couple this with an addictive personality. I really get into sports, activities, and video games. Obsessed with them for months at a time. I love the idea of building xxx app/business - but I rarely stick with these through to completion. Almost as if I get all the joy and enjoyment from the formulation of ideas and the beginning of the journey but get over it quickly and move on to something else.

That's interesting - my girlfriend seems to very much fit the description. Would you say you have difficulty formulating full arguments in your head? Do you talk when you think by yourself? When "thinking" aloud by talking to someone you're bound to sometimes stray and perhaps need to take a different line of reasoning to make a coherent argument. Does it pose a challenge to not get attached (maybe defensive) to what you said for this process to be efficient? - especially before someone whose opinion matters to you; or in an argument.

Yup relate on most of these qualities, including Eastern European, but no Jew via DNA test at least, but anecdotally maybe.

yeah, I have no idea which attributes might be the 'cause', and probably a lot of HNers probably match a lot of that anyway. But it's interesting to be on the lookout for correlations.

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