I went to salsa dancing for about 1.5 years. Pretty much every guy there who was a regular was either a programmer or an accountant. One day I asked my teache

I went to salsa dancing for about 1.5 years. Pretty much every guy there who was a regular was either a programmer or an accountant. One day I asked my teacher about this. She said it wasn't just limited to my city, all over the world it's like this. Her theory about why programmers tended to stay in dancing was that dancing is just a series of patterns. Programmers are good at recognizing patterns so dancing fits into the part of the brain that we are good at using.