I tested as genius in an IQ test when I was 13. My mom and day thought I was retarded for some reason so they took me for tests. Higher than Mensa dad so that was some vindication for the "retarded" thing.
But I don't think IQ has much of a bearing on life or how it's lived.
As far as the original question:
How do I think? I think that answer to that question in any given person will be purely different on an individual basis, but also different based on their emotional intelligence quotient. People see and think through filters of experience. Filters of judgement. Filters of fear and security. Filters of expectation.
But the raw process for me is like a feeling of an instant whoosh of neural net sensing that evaluates a given circumstance or situation in very broad or 'big picture' terms. I see cause and subsequent effect instantly. Multiple outcomes. Actions and consequences in one bloom of feedback. There is an intuition factor that borders on psychic. It's so sensorially rich an experience, that I am the type of person that can see a good travel documentary and never feel the need to go to that particular country ever again. I smell it, taste the food and feel the heat or cold and the very essense of a place just through my visual senses. Basically, I feel like I have been there already. I know instantly if a solution will be successful or not, at work, for instance. But relating the consequences gets one labled as "not a team player" even if you are correct in the end. So I squelch that to some degree.
But it doesn't help that I have poor retention. Mathematics is a subject I love, but unless I am performing calculations constantly, I just lose the ability to perform them in a short span of time. I have forgotten half my multiplication tables at times in my life. Even though I am great with cause/ effect and big picture, I can't play chess. I can't remember books I have read unless they were really impactful or popular and much discussed. I have to view pictures to remember a lot of my youth.
I am excellent at getting to a place I have only been once. A visual memory thing. I can even get to places I have never been via some kind of natural GPS in my head. But I can't remember funny jokes. Or lines from movies.
I think my photographic memory takes up too much space so other abilities take a backseat or fall off altogether.
My Myers-Brigs tested to be an INTJ when I was young. Again in my 30's and again in my 40's. I have intentionally modified the social lackings that INTJs naturally have because it was evident that it was in my best interest to do so.
Jennifer