Were you, by chance, an intelligence analyst earlier in your life?
No, but at one point (1990s)I was commissioned to explain one arm of the occult infiltration to medical professionals by a major skeptic organization. With a tight word count limit (LOL).
It turned out very dense. This was before WORD. I was forced to use every single word precisely.
My editor said I had a facility for teasing out connections from reams of seemingly unrelated data. I dunno. I liken it to a juxtapositional way of thinking that is partially visual. I can *see* information points scattered like puzzle pieces and then move them around so the similar ones are all together and then the link points sort of become obvious.