As everyone knew, Batman was a practical man who rarely wasted time on idle fantasies. But that did not mean he lacked sharpness; every good detective possessed a leaping way of thinking.
That kind of thinking could help them vault over a wall when their reasoning reached a dead end and glimpse a vast New World beyond it.
It was just that Batman's personality kept him from relying on such leaps of thought. Inspiration was naturally welcome, but he preferred making judgments through rigorous logical deduction, because that was solid, reliable, and something he could prepare for in advance.
All in all, Batman was the typical sort of person who was more talented than most and worked harder than most. The occasions when he needed to rely on talent were few and far between; most problems had already been solved through preparation.
Bruce, like Batman, possessed leaping thoughts, but because he had recovered from his illness, his personality had become entirely different from Batman's. He was the kind of person who would go looking for inspiration even when he had none.
It was not because he could not prepare, but because he found methodically preparing this and that unbearably dull.
Just as ordinary people disliked tedious, mindless work, certain daydreamers spent every day thinking about how to skip the long process of laying foundations and building structures and go straight to imagining the style of the interior decor.
Bruce liked relying on flashes of inspiration, which made his thoughts seem especially scattered. But his sudden ideas were constructive rather than deductive.
The difference between the two was that constructive flashes were like suddenly wanting to do something. People who were intermittently full of ambition yet consistently muddled through life often possessed this kind of thinking.
Today they wanted to become