reflexes

A __iomass_ man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct

Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time to conceal or display, barely exchanging looks as they resolved. The old men took no interest in this activity, knowing perhaps from long experience that it rarely meant anything or led anywhere, was a brief and helpless surrender to the forcing-house of the shower. In a few seconds the hard-on might pass from one end of the room to the other with the foolish perfection of a Busby Berkeley routine.

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

Taken together, it__ almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That__ because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you__e impulsive, can__ sit still in the classroom. That__ your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they__ keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that__ because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal__.

It's all in the reflexes.