I was mostly the follow your curiosity type with a few areas I worked hard.. I noticed much later that the reason I impressed teachers and later coworkers is th

I was mostly the follow your curiosity type with a few areas I worked hard.. I noticed much later that the reason I impressed teachers and later coworkers is that I'd seen everything before.. CS is an extension of math, a hard science where you seek validation from reality instead of others. If you take the style of the mathematician all comes easy. CS is an extension of linguistics, there might be a style that works there too, but there is also the lost people who count snowflakes instead of noticing snow is all about the same.