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It’s almost certainly dependent on age. I see the same youthful development in my own children that I no longer have.

• 082349872349872 3y ago
  I believe it's just learned impatience/discomfort. I have over half a century, and yet can still approach things with the attitude of "it's all greek to me" — meaning that a bunch of funny characters may initially make me feel like I'm back in kindergarten, but I can remain confident that it will all become comprehensible after I have learned* what each splodge signifies and in what ways they are combined together. > μὴ εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπί γεωμετρίαν — E * of course, a major part of this learning process involves doing the exercises, and if no one has been nice enough to set any exercises, then one simply has to provide one's own by playing around with other combinations of splodges to see if anything interesting results. cf http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
• s1artibartfast 3y ago
  I think there's a lot of possible explanations which may be true to different degrees and for different people. One possibility is that it becomes more challenging to integrate information the more you know, and the more that you are aware of your limitations. The child might read something and pick up the general idea of what things are from the context. An adult might realize that the context definition is incomplete. A child might read an instruction that says to use a box wrench to tighten the bolt and pick up from contacts that that's just the tool that you use. An adult night Wonder what kind of box wrench, metric or imperial ratcheting or not. What about other times where I use the socket for this type of work, is that better