The BIS, a 30-item self-report measure, assessed three aspects of impulsivity: attentional (rapid, unstable thoughts and lack of cognitive patience), motor (a tendency for impetuous action) and non-planning (lack of future orientation).
He has fine-tuned the nuances of their voices, from the intensity of Isaac's rapid-fire thoughts, to the circular, defeated thought pattern of Poe's mother, Grace, and the plot is captivating without ever straying into the realm of folksy page-turner.
His analysis of the rapid-fire thought process that accompanies an MP standing to ask a question is a tour de force.
I had broken through the threshold of night, beyond which sleep would not come only a rapid stream of thoughts and disconnected suppositions".
And with all that stress, comes anxiety - the million-mile-per-hour (at many times contradictory) thoughts, rapid heartbeat, uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach.
From cultural progress as documented in Galdwell's Blink or back to the start-up with McConnell's Rapid Development, these thoughts happen very quickly, unpredictably.
"The few surviving sheets, touched by and written on by him, with evidence of pauses for contemplation, or spurts reflecting the rapid flow of thought, bring one closer to the man and his process of creation than perhaps anything else.
The metaphors, myths, and gnomic sayings that ornament the odes are often difficult to grasp because of the rapid shifts of thought and the sacrifice of syntax to achieving uniform poetic colour.
Look closely, though, and his quietly elegant suit jacket and rapid turn of thought point to formative years at Harvard — an editor of the Lampoon, class of '76.
He blurts out his thoughts in rapid fire and is highly intelligent but pays little attention to matters like clothing or social cues.
