For a long time this feeling was excruciating for me. Actually, sometimes still is, especially dealing with the "HN effect" of seeing very opinionated people from (usually) tech pop up from nowhere and discuss subjects that doesn't have much to do with their day-to-day lives.
Then I realized that's not a matter of quick thinking as it's of having lots of experience reading or discussing before. Of course, there are people that can draw reasonable arguments without much exposure just because they are wired this way, but that's not what's happening inside the majority's head.
Well, either way, mental models can come quite in handy when you need to speed up some things, but again, you need _some_ thinking before apply them.
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For a long time this feeling was excruciating for me. Actually, sometimes still is, especially dealing with the "HN effect" of seeing very opinionated people from (usually) tech pop up from nowhere and discuss subjects that doesn't have much to do with their day-to-day lives.
Then I realized that's not a matter of quick thinking as it's of having lots of experience reading or discussing before. Of course, there are people that can draw reasonable arguments without much exposure just because they are wired this way, but that's not what's happening inside the majority's head.
Well, either way, mental models can come quite in handy when you need to speed up some things, but again, you need _some_ thinking before apply them.
First I need practical example walk-throughs. Like the stuff on egghead.io.
Then I need to do the stuff myself.
Later I need the theoretical explanations.