Even at the best of times my predominant intellectual ability is being very good at applied ontology: at figuring out the correct categories and organization and architecture of things, at describing what I want and following the logic through. Not creative or lateral thinking. My brain is like a Bugatti Veyron: very fast in a straight line.
This is very helpful for things like programming and writing in some sense, because I'm very good at seeing the joints in reality and describing things how they need to be described to work correctly. It's also very helpful for things like argumentation and philosophy, because I can usually immediately spot where others have made a leap in logic, or are relying on intuition, because I usually won't be able to automatically follow them. This means I either have to sit down and construct a linear argument to get me where they're going or make them do it, in the process usually clarifying the leap and seeing if it's actually valid. Sometimes I'll make automatic leaps or intuitions too without noticing it (I just can't do it on command) and usually being such a linear thinker can help with that as well, because then I can just revisit the text later and immediately see the gaps, because I won't be able to follow them anymore.
This way of thinking can also be extremely detremental to things like doing proofs, or poetry, or at times even in my own chosen fields when lateral thinking is required: I can sometimes get stuck down one set of train tracks, and not be able to hop the tracks to another path in order to solve a problem. I'm not really sure how to solve this in the general case, but usually asking for help is enough to get me going again.