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Interview #1160: Shadows of Self-Oak Brook, IL, Entry #108

Alterodent

With zinc, you get mental speed. How is that any different from steel, except without [physical] speed?

Brandon Sanderson

I think of the mental speed actually turning you into… Let’s say you sped up your body, and you wanted to figure out some really complex equations.

Alterodent

So it lets you have intuitive leaps.

Brandon Sanderson

Right. It basically turns you into Ken Jennings. That’s how I imagine it.

Kurkistan

So it’s not like bullet time?

Brandon Sanderson

No… It’ll bullet time a little bit, it certainly will, because you’re thinking faster than everyone else, but it has applications beyond bullet timing. Bullet time is really-

Kurkistan

That’s steel’s thing?

Brandon Sanderson

That’s kind of steel’s thing. They overlap on that one, because the steel thing… But yeah. It’s more like “I think fast, but my reaction speed is not sped up”.

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