Fortunately, my father had a clearer sense of my jaggedness. He helped me see that my problem was not that I had weak analytical skills—the one-dimensional view I had settled on after failing practice test after practice test using my instructor’s method—but rather that I was relying on one of my weakest mental abilities, working memory, to solve the problems. Once my father helped me identify a strategy that played to my strengths, I could finally answer the test questions correctly and demonstrate my true talent.
