I feel that the best mindset with which to approach Haskell (and many other new areas) is: "I don't get much right now, but that's OK. If I keep working with wh

I feel that the best mindset with which to approach Haskell (and many other new areas) is: "I don't get much right now, but that's OK. If I keep working with what I know and expand that set by just a little every day, it's bound to click and I will be able to look back on the entire journey as worthwhile." And I think that, itself, is a mindset that children more easily accept. Children necessarily live in a world they can't yet fully understand (not that adults can, either, but we're more likely to live with the delusion that we can :). So I think they're more accepting of "you'll understand that later" than an adult is. So I agree with you, I don't think children are necessarily more malleable. But I do think they have a lack of ego, an openness to knew things, an acceptance (or maybe it's ignorance) of their own limitations, and far less fear of failure than the typical adult. And that I find incredibly inspirational, and something I try (and usually fail) to apply to my own life.