Not to get entirely metaphysical but when the focus of your life dictates the use of logic.
It would not be natural or human to turn it off
in other facets of life. 

Learning GOOOOOD!
Fire Baaaddd!

It may also be that you are developing larger deposits of sphingomylin tissue that are enveloping your neural net's axons deriving at faster response times for the nodes of Ranvier.

Gandalf tea Wednesday.