emotional outburst during very normal pleasant conversation when sensitive topic is referred to or brought up. maybe something to do with his inability to cope with the realization that his positive attitude does not mean he will succeed and that he is beginning to be afraid..

recognition of patterns and the way things look to make decisions and choices in everyday life.
lottery ticket patterns. he looks through many randomly generated lotto numbers and chooses them by the way they look in relation to each other.. trying to find balance in composition of the whole instead of preference of numbers