With someone else staring at the screen seeing every letter as I type it there have been cases where I become paralyzed and my mind goes blank on problems that

With someone else staring at the screen seeing every letter as I type it there have been cases where I become paralyzed and my mind goes blank on problems that I could have easily solved on my own (without resorting to Stack Overflow, of course). It's a combination of nerves and needing to suppress a part of my natural coding process that occasionally involves a brief frenzy of guess-and-checking and pattern recognition to get my bearings on possible solutions. That part of the process is unconscious and intuitive, kind of like how athletes don't think about what they are doing. If I slow down to consciously relay those early steps of the process it breaks the spell/flow and I go blank. I think the problem is that I have a habit of letting rapid ad-hoc intuition guide my coding, rather than being a rational agent following a pre-planned 'waterfall'. In-the-moment intuition somehow (surprisingly) produces nicely workable and even readable code much of the time, but also entails some amnesia about the steps I took along the way. I occasionally have doubts - am I built to be an engineer? By nature I am a very logical person, why can't I always conceive of a whole answer (or at least a clear direction) before "putting pen to paper"? Working memory deficiency? ADHD? Lack of practice? However, my doubts about programming potential are quelled when my friends and I look at the code I can write and the problems I have solved. Practice makes perfect as they say. I really look forward to using this service.