Wow - you Got It after a lot of hard work?

More like a lot of small insights. Clicks - but with all the data "in cache", as loaded up by you and neatly lined up to connect.

I think you might be suffering from a bit of underconfidence here.

I don't think I'm "the worstest rationalist ever", just that I have a major problem clicking spontaneously from raw data. This seems to me to be the key skill of insight - drawing together a lot of local understandings into a global explanatory pattern. If I could crack this, I think my functional IQ would go up quite a bit.