- Forgive yourself. It's okay. You are who you are. - Understand that there is no speed limit. You can be as fast or as slow as you should be. - Mimic. Co

- Forgive yourself. It's okay. You are who you are. - Understand that there is no speed limit. You can be as fast or as slow as you should be. - Mimic. Connections and insights are rarely magical. Usually the person has been trained by themselves/others or have come up with mental "hacks" to promote these kind of eureka type thoughts. Decades ago, my best friend was much better about making connections, insights, etc. I was constantly wowed. Instead of fixed mindset like "I'll never be as good/clever as they are" I simply asked: "How did you come up with that?" or "How did you figure it out?". Sometimes he would point me to how he read documentation and interpreted that into code. Once I got the cryptic answer "Think like an electron." (His point was that similar to how you can predict how water will flow down a mountain, valley, gather against dams, you can kind of predict how electrons move through capacitors, inductors, diodes, etc.) The point is that I was less interested the outcomes and more interested in how they were achieved. You'll find that there is a snowball effect. The more connections and insights you make, the easier it is to add to them. Lastly, the core principles of no zero days might help out. Here's a link to the seminal reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_just_dont_care_about_myself/cdah4af/ https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_ju...