I think I might have some talent for teaching. Repeatedly now, the student I'm tutoring has remarked "Oh my god, it's that simple?" after explaining a computer science concept she was struggling with.
I think it's because I need to understand things quickly myself. If it's too complex, I lose patience. Explain to me like I'm five, please.
One disadvantage of being diligent is that a heavy workload doesn't bother you enough to stop and question it. I remember this from my brief period of taking #ADHD meds. I would be so concentrated on the task that I didn't pause to consider that maybe I should change my approach.
The benefit of impatience and procrastination is that they make you rethink things. "This is too hard. There must be a better way." And you procrastinate to see if there's an alternative. While you're putting it off, an alternative approach might emerge, or the problem might even solve itself.
Not great for completing tedious tasks right now, but great for coming up with new approaches and streamlining them later. If my entire programming career had looked like that, maybe I would've enjoyed my job. There's more demand for diligent workers who can churn through tedious tasks, but I'm pretty much useless in such roles.
Speaking of tedium. Me and a friend know a guy with #ASD and who was absolutely mental at tedious tasks. "Do this until we tell you to stop." and he'd just keep going. One of his favourite games was WoW because of all the grinding. He was also a great metal guitar player for the same reason. Relentless monotonous practice until perfection was accomplished.
Unthinkable for me. I have #ADHD, so I'm pretty much the exact opposite. I virtually never rehearse anything. I play the keyboard but I can't even play through a single song. There's just no patience. Certain keyboard techniques are inaccessible to me for that reason. They're just too tedious to learn.
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