"one has a natural intuition for equations, in general" Well, that's also true and I also have the same problem. What I'm really trying to capture is that the

"one has a natural intuition for equations, in general" Well, that's also true and I also have the same problem. What I'm really trying to capture is that there are a lot of things which I "get" in some fuzzy way but I have difficulty verbalizing it, even in my head. When I do manage to verbalize things, it often comes out sounding very non-academic. But what happens is that coworkers end up thinking I really know these things well, as long as I don't open my mouth much (and when I do, they think I'm just having a brain fart)