Quick thinking and knowledge

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Well, I did a quiz with my daughter, and she's 15 and quite sharp.

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And I knew all of the answers.

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I mean, I have better general knowledge than her, I think.

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But she said all the answers quicker than me.

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I think just the distance between her brain

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and her mouth is shorter than mine.

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Were the answers on the tip of your tongue?

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The answers were on the tip of my tongue,

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but they just didn't get a chance to get out there.

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So, I have a story as well.

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A time when I couldn't remember something.

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My friend was talking about something that...

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about an event where I was and I didn't remember it at all,

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and she had to ask another friend to get evidence,

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to prove to me that it had happened because I didn't believe her.

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And it was so strange because it was true that it happened,

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but I didn't remember it.

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Do you think you have a quick brain?

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I don't actually.

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I'm the kind of person that needs some time to process things –

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what people have said or...

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Yeah, I don't like it when people ask me my opinions of things on the spot.

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I prefer to think about things and form my opinions in my own time.

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So, no. I have a slow brain.

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OK.

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What do you do to keep your mind active?

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Well, I... I like to study languages