In general, I get excited about learning new things. Regarding monads, I've made several efforts to grasp them over the course of multiple years now. I no lon

In general, I get excited about learning new things. Regarding monads, I've made several efforts to grasp them over the course of multiple years now. I no longer get excited about trying to understand them. I'm currently taking Odersky's functional programming class at Coursera, and that has been coming naturally to me. But monads seem to inhabit a magical space which my mind cannot enter.