I think that those of us who put substantial effort into tech and tech-adjacent things before we were 18 are another group entirely. We cheated and put in the t

I think that those of us who put substantial effort into tech and tech-adjacent things before we were 18 are another group entirely. We cheated and put in the time before we realized this was supposed to be difficult. I also think that (depending on how old you were when you got started) those of us who started as kids got to take advantage of younger brains' neuroplasticity and that makes things seem easier. Big O and discrete systems, for example, both make perfect sense if you've internalized how computers work on a fundamental level. And usually what trips people up about understanding computers is how alien they are/how different they are from the natural world. If you're a child, then you haven't learned enough to think computers are 'weird' so that brain block doesn't exist.