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by YesMilord 1964 days ago
An anecdote to give you an idea of a different way of thinking. When I was very young I didn't have any friends and played a lot of games, including quite a few with map builders like warcraft 3 and age of mythology. This was a very early taste of programming.

Because of this however, when we got to learning about equations in school, I already had a more procedural idea of how things work. If I do 2 + 3, something gives me 5. This way of thinking was pretty good for algebraic problems but absolutely demolished my understanding of geometry.I only managed to get over it and understand equivalences in my third year of engineering school because I was doing terrible in the courses.

I'm pretty sure our way of thinking is extremely affected by our early lives and how our young brains optimized themselves to solve ever increasing challenges